Session Information
02 SES 07 B, Transition Paths and Strategies
Paper Session
Contribution
Becoming unemployed is a serious break in occupational life for many people. Particularly in higher ages it becomes more difficult to re-enter the labour market. The share of older workers in the overall unemployment rate is high and still not decreasing, at least in Germany, although in the last years the overall unemployment rate sunk. Unemployed use different strategies to cope with this situation, to maintain employability, or resign and use the spare time for other tasks. These strategies often are not successful and end in long-time unemployment. If long-time unemployment and a higher age coincide, the problems of re-entering the labour market increase significantly. The difficulties in getting back to working life thereby often result from inappropriate strategies in the past that are pursued anyway.
Helping people to get back to a job therefore could be assisted with methods of helping them to reflect their own occupational biographies, their strategies and faults within these strategies. But to identify these strategies, research was needed. In this paper a survey is presented that identifies occupational biographies and strategies of older unemployed people in a larger scale, trying to give a typology of unemployed people’s strategies and formulating a methodology of assisting people belonging to different types of biographies to re-enter the labour market.
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