WORKPLACE CONSEQUENCES OF ILLICIT DRUG USE

吸毒和滥用可以极大地改变人类行为并严重影响 损害工作、学校和正常生活所需的各种技能 日常活动。尽管国家研究工作，例如 全国家庭药物滥用调查 (NHSDA) 提供了有价值的信息 关于公众吸毒流行情况的信息很少 研究彻底检验了毒品和酒精之间的关系 使用和劳动力市场结果。在本研究中，我们建议使用来自 1985 年、1988 年、1990 年、1991 年 NHSDA 的串联公共使用文件 检查工人在工作场所吸毒和酗酒的情况，并 评估药物和酒精使用之间的多变量关系 劳动成果。具体来说，我们将完成以下工作： 1. 估算每年工人的谎言流行率 按年龄、性别、种族、收入等分类的串联公共使用文件 社会人口群体。 2. 分析工人流行率估计的模式并描述和 比较随时间推移患病率的变化。 3. 对于每个 NHSDA，估计药物之间的横截面关系 和饮酒以及五项劳动力市场结果：收入、缺勤天数 工作、工作周数、受访者最近是否工作 年，以及受访者目前是否有工作，控制 社会人口特征。 4. 估计药物和药物之间的这些横截面关系 1985年至1988年、1988年至1990年以及1990年期间酒精使用变化 1991年。 缺乏关于吸毒后果的科学信息 工作场所阻碍了决策者评估问题的严重程度 与药物滥用相关的成本以及建立适当的 治疗方案。拟议的研究将建立实证 规律性将极大地扩展我们对这种关系的认识 吸毒和酗酒与劳动力市场结果之间的关系。研究结果将 帮助政策制定者确定如何以及在哪里分配稀缺资源 资源。

Drug use and abuse can substantially alter human behavior and seriously impair the wide variety of skills necessary for work, school, and normal everyday activities. Although national research efforts, such as the National Household Surveys of Drug Abuse (NHSDA), provide valuable information on the prevalence of drug use in the general public, few studies have thoroughly examined the relationship between drug and alcohol use and labor market outcomes. In this study, we propose to use data from the 1985, 1988, 1990, 1991 concatenated public-use file of the NHSDAs to examine worker prevalence of drug and alcohol use in the workplace and to assess the multivariate relationship between drug and alcohol use and labor outcomes. Specifically, we will complete the following tasks: 1. Produce prevalence estimates for workers for each year of lie concatenated public-use file, by age, gender, race, income, and other sociodemographic groups. 2. Analyze patterns in worker prevalence estimates and describe and compare changes in prevalence overtime. 3. For each NHSDA, estimate the cross-sectional relationship between drug and alcohol use and five labor market outcomes: earnings, days absent from work, number of weeks worked, whether the respondent worked in the last year, and whether the respondent is currently employed, controlling for sociodemographic characteristics. 4. Estimate how these cross-sectional relationships between drug and alcohol use change between 1985 and 1988, 1988 and 1990, and 1990 and 1991. The paucity of scientific information on the consequences of drug use in the workplace hinders decision makers in assessing the magnitude of the costs associated with substance abuse and in establishing appropriate treatment programs. The proposed study will establish empirical regularities that will greatly expand our knowledge of the relationship between drug and alcohol use and labor market outcomes. The findings will help policy makers determine how and where to allocate their scarce resources.