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What are the Trends and Explanations of Perceived Social Mobility in Poland?
There is an increasing interest in the subjective aspect of socioeconomic position and its implications for wellbeing across social science...
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Introduction: The Experience of Joblessness in Poland
Our intention is to describe, to an English language audience, the experience of joblessness in post-communist Poland after the Great Recession. By...
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The Respondents, the Interviewers, and the Interview Situation
In this chapter we describe the three main facets of our study that, through their interconnectedness, provide the information our analyses are based...
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Labor Market Destinations of the Jobless
In this chapter our aim is to distinguish those who are employed during the time of the Joblessness study from those who are not and, in defining...
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Looking for and Finding a Job
In this chapter we return to the women and men who in POLPAN 2008 reported a spell of unemployment lasting at least three months, and whose paths...
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The Structural Background of Migration and Homecoming in Europe After 2004
In this chapter, the author makes use of public statistical data (from Eurostat, the OECD, the European Social Survey, the European Value Survey) to...
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The Subjective Experience of Joblessness in Poland
This book describes the experience of joblessness and unemployment in contemporary Poland. It does so by combining qualitative and quantitative data...
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Becoming a Housewife
In this chapter we tell the stories of how women became homemakers. This chapter contributes to the discussion about the social expectations and...
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Structural Determinants of Workforce Participation after Retirement in Poland
In this paper, we aim to analyse selected structural determinants of workforce participation after retirement in Poland. By structural determinants ...
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Social and Political Activities of the Unemployed
This chapter continues our inquiry into how the jobless define and participate in social and political activities. Some respondents provided circular...
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Social and Political Activities of Housewives
This chapter is about the social and political activities of housewives. Homemakers perceived social involvement positively and associated it with...
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Irregular Jobs and Housework
In this chapter we examine work performed outside of regular employment: irregular jobs and unpaid home production. First, we describe the prevalence...
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How I Lost My Job
In this chapter we examine how respondents told about how they lost their job, or how the job lost them. We classify several main paths into...
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An Integrated Approach to Surveying Emigrants Worldwide
This chapter describes the research design applied in the research project The Emigrant Communities of Latvia: National Identity, Transnational...
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The Impact of the Economic Transition in Poland on Vulnerable Populations
The economic changes that began with the fall of communism in 1989 have helped Poland to establish one of the strongest economies in Eastern Europe...