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Why Do Unemployed Americans Blame Themselves While Israelis Blame the System?

This article provides a new account of American job seekers' individualized understandings of their labor-market difficulties, and more broadly, of how structural conditions shape subjective responses. Unemployed white-collar workers in the U.S. tend to interpret their labor market difficulties as r...

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Published in:Social Forces Vol. 91; no. 4; pp. 1429 - 1451
Main Author: Sharone, Ofer
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2013
Subjects:
Unemployed people
Americans
Employment
Psychology
Israelis
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