The Social Costs of Underemployment : Inadequate Employment as Disguised Unemployment /

Comparing the effects of unemployment and inadequate employment relative to adequate employment, this text studies their effects on self-esteem, alcohol abuse, depression, and birth weight. Using longitudinal methods, it measures controls for reverse causation (selection) and studies a large represe...

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Main Authors: Dooley, David, 1943- (Author), Prause, JoAnn, 1953- (Author)
Corporate Author: Alexander Street (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Summary:Comparing the effects of unemployment and inadequate employment relative to adequate employment, this text studies their effects on self-esteem, alcohol abuse, depression, and birth weight. Using longitudinal methods, it measures controls for reverse causation (selection) and studies a large representative sample of Americans from their late teens in 1979, to their early 30's in the last decade of the twentieth century through stages of different business cycles. The results point to a rethinking of employment status as a continuum.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed February 13, 2017).
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 274 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-259) and indexes.