Out of Work, Out of Spirit? The Effects of Unemployment Duration on Young People’s Intrinsic Work Motivation

Monika Mlynek; Monika Mühlböck; Nadia Steiber

doi:10.1007/s11205-025-03709-4

Out of Work, Out of Spirit? The Effects of Unemployment Duration on Young People’s Intrinsic Work Motivation

Monika Mlynek^*
, Monika Mühlböck
, Nadia Steiber

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1419-1447
Number of pages	29
Journal	Social Indicators Research
Volume	180
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03709-4
Publication status	Published - 13 Oct 2025

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504021 Migration research
504005 Educational sociology
504002 Sociology of work
509012 Social policy
506004 European integration
504 Sociology
504030 Economic sociology
504014 Gender studies
603124 Theory of science
501015 Organisational psychology
501003 Occupational psychology
502002 Labour economics
502027 Political economy
502001 Labour market policy
501 Psychology
501012 Media psychology
504007 Empirical social research
506009 Organisation theory

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Sustainable Development: Responsible Technologies and Management
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