Housing and Employment Insecurity among the Working Poor
Housing and Employment Insecurity among the Working Poor
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DOI：
10.1093/socpro/spv025
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发表时间：
2016-02-01
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Gershenson, Carl
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作者：
Desmond, Matthew;Gershenson, Carl
虽然社会科学家已经记录了失业的严重后果，但很少有研究调查工人失业的原因。我们探讨了住房不安全在就业不安全中的作用，调查了那些非自愿失去住房的工人是否随后非自愿地失去了工作。分析了主要针对低收入工作租房者的新调查数据，我们发现，与观察结果相同的没有经历过强迫搬迁的工人相比，经历过强迫搬迁的工人被解雇的可能性要高11%到22%。我们的研究结果表明，促进住房稳定的举措可以促进就业稳定。
While social scientists have documented severe consequences of job loss, scant research investigates why workers lose their jobs. We explore the role of housing insecurity in actuating employment insecurity, investigating if workers who involuntarily lose their homes subsequently involuntarily lose their jobs. Analyzing novel survey data of predominately low-income working renters, we find the likelihood of being laid off to be between 11 and 22 percentage points higher for workers who experienced a preceding forced move, compared to observationally identical workers who did not. Our findings suggest that initiatives promoting housing stability could promote employment stability.