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A Twilight Zone between Work and Retirement: The Unemployment Experience of Displaced Older Workers

Lassus, Lora A. Phillips
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1385723647

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2013, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Sociology.
Concerns over the labor market experience of older workers have increased as the American labor force has aged. We know that older workers are often more likely to be displaced and, after displacement, are unemployed longer and are more likely to drop out of the labor force. We know less about how unemployed older workers understand their life course disruption and what consequences they face as a result. I address these questions utilizing 55 semi-structured interviews conducted with unemployed workers aged 40 and older. Interviewees are aware that the economy, the job-search process, and employer preferences are barriers to reemployment. Influenced in part by these barriers, they face social psychological consequences of unemployment; namely, loss of trust in the traditional social contract of employment, reflection upon and questioning of identity, and feelings of isolation and depression. Within-group differences are discussed, as well as avenues for future research.
Steven Lopez (Committee Chair)
Vincent Roscigno (Committee Co-Chair)
Rachel Dwyer (Committee Member)
49 p.
Sociology
work stratification; unemployment; life course; social gerontology; aging

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  • Lassus, L. A. P. (2013). A Twilight Zone between Work and Retirement: The Unemployment Experience of Displaced Older Workers [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1385723647

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lassus, Lora. A Twilight Zone between Work and Retirement: The Unemployment Experience of Displaced Older Workers. 2013. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1385723647.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lassus, Lora. "A Twilight Zone between Work and Retirement: The Unemployment Experience of Displaced Older Workers." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1385723647

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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