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Who Agrees that ‘Having Almost Any Job Is Better Than Being Unemployed’?

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Rethinking Unemployment and the Work Ethic

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This chapter focuses on how various social groups (most importantly, the employed and unemployed) differ in their attitudes towards being unemployed and undertaking unattractive jobs. While the research presented here has already been described in Section 3.4, its main features are now reiterated as we outline the chapter’s structure.

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© 2014 Andrew Dunn, Maria T. Grasso and Clare Saunders

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Dunn, A., Grasso, M.T., Saunders, C. (2014). Who Agrees that ‘Having Almost Any Job Is Better Than Being Unemployed’?. In: Rethinking Unemployment and the Work Ethic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137032119_5

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