The Social Costs of Underemployment: Inadequate Employment as Disguised Unemployment

by JoAnn Prause and David Dooley

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521810140
• ISBN13: 9780521810142
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.2"