Trends in realized job insecurity rate and depth in the United States from 1978 to 2022.
Scholars have argued that the past four decades have undergone a fundamental change to the nature of economic security in the American labor market. However, the literature is surprisingly unsettled on the basic nature of historical trends of economic insecurity. This study expands on past work by d...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 105; no. 1; pp. 9 - 36 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2026
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