The Social Costs of Underemployment: Inadequate Employment as Disguised Unemployment

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David Dooley (University of California, Irvine) JoAnn Prause (University of California, Irvine)

The Social Costs of Underemployment

Inadequate Employment as Disguised Unemployment

David Dooley (University of California, Irvine), JoAnn Prause (University of California, Irvine)

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Cambridge University Press
23 July 2009

Poverty & unemployment; Psychology; Labour economics; Employment & unemployment

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.

By: David Dooley (University of California Irvine), JoAnn Prause (University of California, Irvine)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9780521115650
ISBN 10: 0521115655
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 23 July 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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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...an eminently detailed, careful, and critical analysis...Highly recommended. Choice ...this book is engagin and balanced. Monthly Labor Review

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Inadequate Employment as Disguised Unemployment

David Dooley (University of California, Irvine), JoAnn Prause (University of California, Irvine)

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