Title

Hardship: The Welfare Consequences of Labor Market Problems: A Policy Discussion Paper

Year

1982

Abstract

Taggart offers a series of alternative measures of hardship to reassess labor market and intergenerational problems, and alternative microeconomic policies.

Contents

  1. Measuring What Matters
  2. Hardship in 1979
  3. Hardship Trends Over the 1974-1980 Period
  4. Hardship Over the Business Cycle
  5. Applying the Hardship Measures
  6. Hardship a matter of Perspective

Sponsorship

Funded by grants from the Charles Stewart Mott, Edna McConnell Clark and Ford foundations

ISBN

9780880990035 (pbk.)

Subject Areas

UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and POVERTY; Poverty and income support; Low wage labor markets