Household economic instability: Constructs, measurement, and implications.

ABSTRACT: A growing body of research demonstrates the multiple dimensions and dynamism of family income and employment. The metrics of household economic instability and their associations with household characteristics and hardship require further examination in order to compare across studies, subgroups, and historical periods. This paper empirically examines and compares commonly used measures of income and employment instability, how these measures inter-relate, vary by household characteristics, and how they predict household hardship. Using longitudinal data from the 2008 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), and focusing on households with children, this study examined a range of descriptive measures of economic instability, including in income, earnings, public assi

SUBMITTER: Morrissey TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7508048 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature