ALCOHOLISM, WORK, AND INCOME

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: MULLAHY, J; SINDELAR, JL
• 署名单位: Resources for the Future; National Bureau of Economic Research; Yale University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/298305
• 发表日期: 1993
• 页码: 494-520
• 关键词: diagnostic interview schedule; selection bias; earnings; demand; HEALTH; error

摘要

This article reports on an empirical analysis of the relationships between alcoholism and income and working. We show that the relationships between alcoholism and labor market success have important age or life-cycle dimensions. We present evidence that alcoholism may affect income more by restricting labor market participation than by affecting the wages of workers. Finally, we demonstrate that the effects of alcoholism on earnings depend on the extent to which one controls for other covariates associated with alcoholism; as such, we suggest that there may be important indirect as well as direct effects of alcoholism on labor market success.