Coping with unemployment among journalists and managers

Petteri Raito and Eero Lahelma
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Petteri Raito: University of Helsinki, Finland
Eero Lahelma: University of Helsinki, Finland

Work, Employment & Society, 2015, vol. 29, issue 5, 720-737

Abstract: This study explores the relationship between occupational background and coping with unemployment in two occupational groups. Longitudinal qualitative data are analysed in a life-story context by classifying types of themes found in the narratives. The study is theoretically rooted in the latent deprivation hypothesis, the agency restriction hypothesis and the theory of social exclusion. Occupational background and identity constituted the key foundations in which the journalists and managers anchored their strategies for coping with the labour market in general and with long-term unemployment in particular. Being able to cope was experienced as supportive and even minor success in the labour market enhanced active behaviour. However, repeated failure was related to deterioration in mental well-being. Institutional support was the most beneficial when it provided the unemployed with tools that enabled them to understand the situation they were facing and the need to consider occupational change.

Keywords: agency; coping; deprivation; exclusion; journalist; manager; unemployment; white-collar (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017014559966

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