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- Title
Financial Crisis in Chile and Costa Rica: Perceptions of Households in Precarious Prosperity.
- Authors
Amacker, Michèle; Budowski, Monica; Schief, Sebastian
- Abstract
We ask whether and how households dealing with insecurities in their everyday life in Chile and Costa Rica perceive the global financial crisis, to what extent they attribute the changes in their life to it, and whether the country's welfare regime and economic situation matter. The results, based on 21 qualitative interviews before and after the onset of the crisis in each country, show that only a few households connect their experiences of precariousness directly to the current global crisis. The ups- and downs in the biographical, household and employment trajectories, the lack of formal and stable employment, the country's economic development and/or the bad quality of the public services are put forth as the causes of precariousness.
- Subjects
CHILE; COSTA Rica; LATIN America; GLOBAL Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; ECONOMIC conditions in Chile, 1988-; COSTA Rican economy, 1948-; UNEMPLOYMENT; HOUSEHOLDS; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
Swiss Journal of Sociology / Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2011, Vol 37, Issue 2, p341
- ISSN
0379-3664
- Publication type
Article