SOC363H1 Chapter : MAY 13 Reading - B WHEATON.docx
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Losing social ties and economic stability among others may be stressful in themselves: more negative among persons of low socioeconomic status, pre employment economic circumstances of women, more likely to experience discrimination in the labor market which diminishes chances of reemployment (cid:224) likely that unemployment is more problematic for women, especially single mothers, the meaning and consequence of job loss will vary depending on the state of the economy at a given time and place, ecological level studies have the advantage of emphasizing the broader economic forces that may underlie individual episodes of unemployment, studies of macroeconomic conditions to individual unemployment has found that aggregate unemployment to be associated with increases in depressive mood and stressful life events in metropolitan areas, no evidence for the interaction between broad economic changes and unemployment on an individual level, another study did find an interaction, with stronger associations among those with lower levels of education.
