Labor Force Exiters around Recessions: Who Are They?

Who do they think they are?

Workers Laid-off During the Last Three Recessions: Who Were They, and How Did They Fare?

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Attached Recreationists... Who Are They?

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Building on previous conceptual and empirical work, the purpose of this investigation was to examine place attachment’s effect on several variables purportedly related to the construct. The place attachment construct has been used by recreation researchers and managers to explain a variety of leisure behaviors (e.g., recreationists’ setting preferences, management preferences...

Nondaily smokers: who are they?

OBJECTIVE We sought to understand who constitutes the sizable population of nondaily, or some-day (SD), smokers. METHODS We analyzed descriptive statistics and regression results using the 1998-1999 Current Population Survey Tobacco Use Supplement to determine the prevalence of SD smokers, their sociodemographic characteristics, and the smoking patterns and histories of groups differentiated ...

Who Suffers During Recessions?

T he Great Recession generated large reductions in employment, earnings, and income for workers and families in the United States. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased from 5 percent in December 2007 to 9.5 percent in June 2009, the start and end of the recession according to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER, at 〈http://www.nber.org/cycles.html〉). From 2007 to 2010,...