Social Costs of Underemployment - Inadequate Employment As Disguised Unemployment

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This 2004 book compares the effects of two different kinds of underemployment - unemployment and inadequate employment relative to adequate employment. It studies these effects on self-esteem! alcohol abuse! depression! and! in cross-generational analysis! birth weight. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Disguised unemployment and changing forms of work; 2. The social costs of unemployment; 3. Data source and methods; 4. Reverse causation: findings on the selection hypothesis; 5. Leaving school: self-esteem in an unwelcoming economy; 6. Early adulthood: alcohol misuse and underemployment; 7. Settling down: psychological depression and underemployment; 8. Extending the employment continuum: well-being in welfare transitions; 9. The next generation: underemployment and birth weight; 10. Conclusions; 11. New directions; Appendices; References; Name index; Subject index.

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• Authors: David Dooley, David (University of California Dooley, David Prause Dooley, Dooley David, Joann Prause, Prause JoAnn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2003
• EAN: 9780521810142
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81014-2
• No. of pages: 286
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Poverty & unemployment, Labour / income economics, Poverty and precarity, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Employment & Unemployment