SUCCESS AND FAILURE IN THE LABOR-MARKET - SOME COMMENTS

These comments on the Schaufeli and Van Ypersen (1993) article on succ ess and failure in the labor market consider the generalizability of t heir results across different samples and cultures. They also consider the need to move beyond empirical studies that are primarily concerne d with identifying predictor variables to theory-drive studies that ti e research on unemployment into existing or new theoretical frameworks , thereby providing order and meaning to the findings from unemploymen t research.