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The Importance of Accounting for Job Quality:

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  • David Howell
  • Mamadou Diallo

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These authors argue that traditional measures of employment and unemployment are not adequate. In the traditional data, a low-paying job counts as much as a high-paying one. The authors create new indicators to determine how well Americans are doing. They show that a strikingly low percentage of American workers have what the authors define as adequate jobs, although the rate has improved since 1979. Serious job-quality deterioration has occurred, however, for those, especially men, who have at least a high school diploma but no more than two years of college.

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  • David Howell & Mamadou Diallo, 2008. "The Importance of Accounting for Job Quality:," Challenge, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(1), pages 26-44.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:challe:v:51:y:2008:i:1:p:26-44
    DOI: 10.2753/0577-5132510102
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