This timely and important work addresses the controversy surrounding discouragement among the unemployed. Using an unprecedented set of national and local studies, and drawing on disparate research in nearly every social science discipline, the authors produce an original, highly detailed portrait of discouraged workers. From their analysis they offer recommendations on what can be done to promote employment and reduce long-term dependency on government assistance. Other timely issues discussed are chronic minority unemployment, worker dislocation through plant closings, the impact of low wage jobs on reducing poverty, the feminization of poverty, the plight of the working poor, and the importance of the family.
This timely and important work addresses the controversy surrounding discouragement among the unemployed. Using an unprecedented set of national and local studies, and drawing on disparate research in nearly every social science discipline, the authors produce an original, highly detailed portrait of discouraged workers. From their analysis they offer recommendations on what can be done to promote employment and reduce long-term dependency on government assistance. Other timely issues discussed are chronic minority unemployment, worker dislocation through plant closings, the impact of low wage jobs on reducing poverty, the feminization of poverty, the plight of the working poor, and the importance of the family.
Background
The Discouraged Worker Problem
The Existing Knowledge Base
Toward a New Perspective
Paths to Discouragement
Profiles in Discouragement
Coping Without Work
Viewing Life and Work
Seeking Work
Public Policy
What Are Their Needs?
How Should They Be Helped?
Bibliography
Index
TERRY F. BUSS is professor of urban studies and senior research
associate at the Center for Urban Studies, The University of Akron.
His latest books coauthored with Roger J. Vaughan and published by
the Council of State Planning Agencies, include: On the Rebound:
Developing a Human Service Response to Plant Closings (1988), A
State Strategy for Preventing and Treating Rural Poverty (1988),
Picking Up the Pieces: Economic Recovery After a Plant Closin
(1988). He is now working on a book about the the working poor and
welfare poor.
F. STEVENS REDBURN is an Economist with the United States Office of
Management and Budget. He is the co-author, with Terry Buss, of
Responding to America's Homeless (Praeger, 1987) and Revitalizing
the U.S. Economy (Praeger, 1987). He is currently working on
banking and housing issues.
?An analytic study of an important segment of the
population--discouraged workers. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics
identifies discouraged workers on the basis of responses to its
monthly Current Population Survey' (CPS). This study uses the 1984
Special Plant Closing Supplement' to the CPS to examine the process
of discouragement and to compare discouraged workers among
themselves, with other unemployed, and with the general labor
force. A chapter of case studies supplements the quantitative
analyses. Concluding chapters identify the needs of discouraged
workers and suggest suitable public policies. Useful bibliography
and index. Buss is the author of many books; Redburn is an
economist at the US Office of Management and Budget and has
coauthored two other books with Buss. Recommended for all libraries
serving economics, government, and social work students.
Upper-division and graduate collections.?-Choice
"An analytic study of an important segment of the
population--discouraged workers. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics
identifies discouraged workers on the basis of responses to its
monthly Current Population Survey' (CPS). This study uses the 1984
Special Plant Closing Supplement' to the CPS to examine the process
of discouragement and to compare discouraged workers among
themselves, with other unemployed, and with the general labor
force. A chapter of case studies supplements the quantitative
analyses. Concluding chapters identify the needs of discouraged
workers and suggest suitable public policies. Useful bibliography
and index. Buss is the author of many books; Redburn is an
economist at the US Office of Management and Budget and has
coauthored two other books with Buss. Recommended for all libraries
serving economics, government, and social work students.
Upper-division and graduate collections."-Choice
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