出版社：Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Studijski centar socijalnog rada
摘要：This paper examines the day-to-day activities, financial situation, perceived level of social support and job search activities of short-term and the long-term unemployed persons in Croatia in an attempt to ascertain whether differences between them indicate the process of social exclusion. This process implies a vicious circle of social degradation in which long-term unemployment leads to poverty and social isolation, which in turn reinforces marginalization on the labour market. If such a spiral of social degradation exists, then the long-term unemployed should show a changed structure of day-to-day activities, higher level of financial strain, lower social support and decreased intensity of job search compared to the short-term unemployed. The research was conducted in summer 2003 in 25 field offices of the Croatian Employment Service, on the representative sample of registered unemployed persons (N = 1138). The data analysis revealed various facts about their characteristics and behaviour, but the hypothesized differences between short-term and long-term unemployed were not found. This leads to the conclusion that the detrimental process of social exclusion is not (yet) present in Croatia.
