The Social Costs of Underemployment: Inadequate Employment as Disguised Unemployment by David Dooley (Author), JoAnn Prause (Author)

The Social Costs of Underemployment: Inadequate Employment as Disguised Unemployment by David Dooley (Author), JoAnn Prause (Author)

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ISBN: 9780521810142

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press (November 24, 2003)

Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 286 pages

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.