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The stigma trap : college-educated, experienced, and long-term unemployed / Ofer Sharone.

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"After receiving a PhD in mathematics from MIT, Larry spent three decades working in the tech industry, most recently in the area of speech recognition. And today, in his late-fifties and after a prolonged bout of unemployment, Larry is a cashier at a department store, earning just above the mi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Sharone, Ofer (Author)
Other title:College-educated, experienced, and long-term unemployed
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
College graduates > Employment > United States.
Unemployed > United States.
Unemployment > United States > Psychological aspects.
Stigma (Social psychology)
Downward mobility (Social sciences)
College graduates > Employment.
Unemployed.
Unemployment > Psychological aspects.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Stigma and the Myth of Meritocracy
  • The Trap: Advanced Degree from Harvard, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed?
  • Networking and Feeling like Beggars and Used Car Salesmen
  • The Stigma Inside
  • Our Closest Relations: Marriages and Friendships
  • Sociological Coaching and Countering Internalized Stigma
  • Confronting Stigma: Activism and Policy.

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