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Shaig E.Kazimov: More Than Just Unemployment: How the Fear Of Not Finding A Job Shapes Life
Satisfaction In Azerbaijan
➢ Integrated labor market policies are essential. In addition to job creation and
unemployment benefits, interventions must promote personal development (goal
growth), social reintegration (social networks), and psychological resilience
(future hope).
➢ Programs focused on future-oriented counseling, community support, and skill-
based development may buffer the impact of job insecurity and enhance life
satisfaction among vulnerable populations.
The study contributes to a growing body of evidence that labor market vulnerability
exerts its strongest influence through complex psychological and social pathways. By
adopting a serial mediation framework and comparing different operationalizations of
job insecurity, this research offers both theoretical insight and practical direction for
addressing unemployment not merely as an economic condition, but as a multi-
dimensional challenge to individual well-being.
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