How to cope with structural unemployment?
Facing the circumstances described, the following questions arise: How to cope with structural unemployment, and which capabilities have to be guaranteed by society? Until now, there are no standardized methods and instruments to measure resources and competencies to cope with unemployment and unstable life courses that have been adapted to a Luxemburgish population of job seekers. Thus it seems meaningful to analyze how coping with unemployment and coping with instabilities in the employment biography can be enhanced and measured. A measurement of coping competencies is especially important, because the resources and competencies to cope with precarious situations in life are distributed very unequally. Thus the goal of Inter-Actions is to develop an instrument to assess coping competence. Its theoretical background is based mainly on concepts from the capability approach first elaborated by the popular economist and political philosopher Amartya Sen. Moving beyond the concept of empl
