Employment and Labor Issues: Unemployment, Youth Employment and Child Labor

Unemployment is a considerable source of social distress, leading to loss of social contact and activity, increased isolation from others, increased family tensions and loss of self-esteem and self-confidence. This book gives a review of the results of follow-up studies and controlled psychological autopsy studies in terms of the association between unemployment and suicide. Furthermore, after three decades of market-oriented reforms along the Washington consensus, full employment has not y...