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Basic Reading

• WBLY  pp. 119-125
• Elgar: pp: 582-590 ('Unemployment and well-being', by Darity et al
• Lea S. E. G. et al, The individual in the economy, chapter 6 (Work)
• Lane, R. E. (1991), The market experience, Chap 13 (Learning at work: beyond human capital). (chaps 14 to 18 are also well worth reading, if you've time)
• Jahoda (1979). The impact of unemployment in the 1930s and the 1980s. Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, 32 309-314.(journal in main library and School of Education library)
• Schor J (1991). The overworked American: The Unexpected decline of leisure 301.550973 SCH
• Furnham, A (1997) The psychology of behaviour at work 158.7 FUR (chap 6, chap 16)
• Warr, P. B. (1987). Work, unemployment, and mental health, chaps 1 (Environmental influences upon mental health) & 15 (The vitamin model: appraisal and application).

Additional material

1. Unemployment and the individual

• Warr, see BASIC. Chaps 11 (The impact of unemployment) & 12 (The jobless environment) .......158.7WAR
• Furnham, A. (1990). The protestant work ethic, chaps 8 (Alternative ethics) & 9 (The future of the work ethic)..
• Cooke (1988), The costs of unemployment. In R. Walker & G.Parker (Eds.), Money matters.
• Yaniv, G. (1991).  Absenteeism and the risk of involuntary unemployment: A dynamic analysis.  Journal of Socio-Economics, 20, 359-372.
• McFadyen RG, & Thomas JP (1997). Economic and psychological models of job search behavior of the unemployed. Human Relations, 50, 1461-1484
• Halvorsen K (1998). Impact of re-employment on psychological distress among long-term unemployed. Acta Sociologica 41, 227-242
• Waters, L, & Moore, K (2001). Coping with economic deprivation during unemployment. JOEP, 22, 461-482

2. Work, leisure, and family processes

• O'Brien (1988), Work and leisure, in Van Raaij et al (Eds), Handbook of economic psychology
• Warr, see BASIC, pp 206-208, 217-219, 226-236.
• Elder & Liker (1982), Hard times in women's lives: historical influences across forty years. American Journal of Sociology, 88, 241-269. .......BJ
• Bernardo et al (1987), A residue of tradition - jobs, careers, and spouses' time in housework. Journal of Marriage and the Family., 49, 381-390. .......P305M30
• Lewis S & Cooper C (1987), Stress in two-earner couples and stage in the life-cycle. Journal of Occupational Psychology 60 289-303.
• Dowswell (1990), The effect of mother's employment on child health care management. In S. E. G. Lea et al (Eds), Applied economic psychology in the 1990s .......330.019 INT
• Sumer HC & Knight PA (2001). How do people with different attachment styles balance work and family? A personality perspective on work-family linkage. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, 653-663
• Ekert-Jaffe, O & Solaz, A (2001). Unemployment, marriage and co-habitation in France. Journal of Socio-Economics, 30, 75-98

3. The motivation to work, self-employment

• Schaubroeck (1996). Pay status hierarchy and organizational attachment. Journal of Economic Psychology 17, 579-589
• Furham & Argyle (1998). The Psychology of Money. 332.4019 FUR  chapter 8 'money at work'
• De Meza & Southey (1996).  The Borrower's Curse:  Optimism, finance and entrepreneurship.  Economic Journal, 106, 375-386.  BJ
• James (1991), The wives' employment family fit model, In Lea, Webley & Young (Eds) New Directions in Economic Psychology .......330.019LEA
• Hoorens et al. (1999). Time is an amazingly variable amount of money.Journal of Economic Psychology 20, 383-405
• Rollet, B. & Bittner, U (2000). Effort avoidance at the work place: causes and consequences. IAREP/SABE Proceedings, pp. 386-387
• Goldsmith et al (2000). Working hard for the money? efficiency wages and worker effort. Journal of Economic Psychology, 21, 351-385

Questions for discussion

1. How does leisure differ from unemployment?
2. How do leisure activities differ from work activities? Could our knowledge of this be used to make work more enjoyable?
3. What is psychologically special about self-employment?
4. How does the employment market affect people's behaviour within families?
5. What are the policy implications of psychological research on unemployment?

Stephen Lea, Paul Webley

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