SOCIAL COSTS OF UNDEREMPLOYMENT: INADEQUATE EMPLOYMENT AS DISGUISED UNEMPLOYMENT.
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Published: 2004
Place of publication: NEW YORK
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 274
Description: 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. --Publisher.