Publication Date

1-1-1982

DOI

10.17848/9780880995719

Abstract

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

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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

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

ISBN

9780880990035 (pbk.) ; 9780880995719 (ebook)

Subject Areas

UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and INCOME SUPPORT PROGRAMS; Poverty and income support; Low wage labor markets

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

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Taggart, Robert. 1982. Hardship: The Welfare Consequences of Labor Market Problems: A Policy Discussion Paper. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. https://doi.org/10.17848/9780880995719

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