Ofer Sharone
Biographic Data
| ID | 1194668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ofer Sharone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ofer |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharone |
| SIGNATURE | SHARONE O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0461-4619 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed
This book shows how the unemployment stigma renders all workers, including workers who are highly experienced and hold advanced degrees from elite universities, precarious and vulnerable to being trapped in long-term unemployment. Stigma is an invisible but ubiquitous force that is powerful enough to erase the significance of past educational and professional achievements. Drawing on interviews with workers, recruiters, and career coaches this bo…
Job Search Interventions for Long-Term Unemployed Job Seekers: Comparing Approaches to Effective Support
Drawing from the psychology of working and social resilience frameworks, this study introduces a novel intervention program to address the complex needs of long-term unemployed individuals. We examine the effectiveness of this novel intervention with a randomized, controlled field experiment where we test two versions of this program: one-on-one coaching and group coaching. Our findings show that long-term unemployed job seekers who received eith…
Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed
Networking While Long-Term Unemployed: Why Long-Term Unemployment Will Likely Persist Long after the Covid-19 Pandemic Recedes
By early 2021, due to the economic downturn accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic, over four million Americans were long-term unemployed (LTU). Getting rehired requires overcoming employer stigmas about LTU workers, which most LTU workers believe is most plausible with the help of referrals from social ties. While research on the structures and effects of networks abound, this paper examines the far less studied process of networking among LTU jobse…
The Emotional Toll of Long-Term Unemployment: Examining the Interaction Effects of Gender and Marital Status
Gokce Basbug, Ofer Sharone, The Emotional Toll of Long-Term Unemployment: Examining the Interaction Effects of Gender and Marital Status, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 3, The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession (April 2017), pp. 222-244
Sociology as a Strategy of Support for Long-Term Unemployed Workers
Social Capital Activation and Job Searching: Embedding the Use of Weak Ties in the American Institutional Context
By comparing job seekers' use of weak ties in Israel and the United States, this article shows that Granovetter's canonical findings are rooted in the particular institutional context of the American white-collar labor market. Drawing on in-depth interviews with three distinct groups of white-collar job seekers: Americans searching in the United States, Israelis searching in Israel, and Israelis searching in the United States, this article untang…
Job-Search Games: Chemistry, Self-Blame, and Unemployment Experiences
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 reflecting flaws in themselves, while Israelis tend to perceive flaws in the hiring system. These different responses have profound individual and soci…
Constructing Unemployed Job Seekers as Professional Workers: The Depoliticizing Work-Game of Job Searching
The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences - by Louis Uchitelle
Constructing Unemployed Job Seekers as Professional Workers: The Depoliticizing Work-Game of Job Searching
Social Capital Activation and Job Searching: Embedding the Use of Weak Ties in the American Institutional Context
By comparing job seekers' use of weak ties in Israel and the United States, this article shows that Granovetter's canonical findings are rooted in the particular institutional context of the American white-collar labor market. Drawing on in-depth interviews with three distinct groups of white-collar job seekers: Americans searching in the United States, Israelis searching in Israel, and Israelis searching in the United States, this article untang…
The Emotional Toll of Long-Term Unemployment: Examining the Interaction Effects of Gender and Marital Status
Gokce Basbug, Ofer Sharone, The Emotional Toll of Long-Term Unemployment: Examining the Interaction Effects of Gender and Marital Status, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 3, The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession (April 2017), pp. 222-244
Sociology as a Strategy of Support for Long-Term Unemployed Workers
Constructing Unemployed Job Seekers as Professional Workers: The Depoliticizing Work-Game of Job Searching
The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences - by Louis Uchitelle
Job-Search Games: Chemistry, Self-Blame, and Unemployment Experiences
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 reflecting flaws in themselves, while Israelis tend to perceive flaws in the hiring system. These different responses have profound individual and soci…
Social Capital Activation and Job Searching: Embedding the Use of Weak Ties in the American Institutional Context
By comparing job seekers' use of weak ties in Israel and the United States, this article shows that Granovetter's canonical findings are rooted in the particular institutional context of the American white-collar labor market. Drawing on in-depth interviews with three distinct groups of white-collar job seekers: Americans searching in the United States, Israelis searching in Israel, and Israelis searching in the United States, this article untang…
The Emotional Toll of Long-Term Unemployment: Examining the Interaction Effects of Gender and Marital Status
Gokce Basbug, Ofer Sharone, The Emotional Toll of Long-Term Unemployment: Examining the Interaction Effects of Gender and Marital Status, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 3, The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession (April 2017), pp. 222-244
Sociology as a Strategy of Support for Long-Term Unemployed Workers
Networking While Long-Term Unemployed: Why Long-Term Unemployment Will Likely Persist Long after the Covid-19 Pandemic Recedes
By early 2021, due to the economic downturn accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic, over four million Americans were long-term unemployed (LTU). Getting rehired requires overcoming employer stigmas about LTU workers, which most LTU workers believe is most plausible with the help of referrals from social ties. While research on the structures and effects of networks abound, this paper examines the far less studied process of networking among LTU jobse…
The Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed
This book shows how the unemployment stigma renders all workers, including workers who are highly experienced and hold advanced degrees from elite universities, precarious and vulnerable to being trapped in long-term unemployment. Stigma is an invisible but ubiquitous force that is powerful enough to erase the significance of past educational and professional achievements. Drawing on interviews with workers, recruiters, and career coaches this bo…
Job Search Interventions for Long-Term Unemployed Job Seekers: Comparing Approaches to Effective Support
Drawing from the psychology of working and social resilience frameworks, this study introduces a novel intervention program to address the complex needs of long-term unemployed individuals. We examine the effectiveness of this novel intervention with a randomized, controlled field experiment where we test two versions of this program: one-on-one coaching and group coaching. Our findings show that long-term unemployed job seekers who received eith…
Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed
Economics (9 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Unemployment (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Labour economics (4 works) · Seekers (4 works)