The social costs of underemployment : inadequate employment as disguised unemployment / David Dooley, JoAnn Prause.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dooley, David, 1943- author.

Prause, JoAnn, 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Underemployment.

Underemployment--Health aspects.

Underemployment--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Going beyond the usual focus on unemployment, this 2004 book explores the health effects of other kinds of underemployment including forms of inadequate employment as involuntary part-time and poverty wage work. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this compares falling into unemployment versus inadequate employment relative to remaining adequately employed. Outcomes include self-esteem, alcohol abuse, depression, and low birth weight. The panel data permit study of the plausible reverse causation hypothesis of selection. Because the sample is national and followed over two decades, the study explores cross-level effects (individual change and community economic climate) and developmental transitions. Special attention is given to school leavers and welfare mothers, and, in cross-generational analysis, the effect of mothers' employment on babies' birth weights. There emerges a way of conceptualizing employment status as a continuum ranging from good jobs to bad jobs to employment with implications for policy on work and health.

Contents:

Preface

1. Disguised unemployment and changing forms of work

2. The social costs of unemployment

3. Data sources 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 birthweight

10. Conclusions

11. New directions

appendix A. Description of NLSY sample at selected survey years

appendix B. Alcohol variable by survey year : NLSY79

References

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-259) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-14417-5

1-280-45825-9

0-511-18539-1

0-511-18456-5

0-511-18717-3

0-511-31337-3

0-511-49956-6

0-511-18624-X

OCLC:

437164374