The Emotional Toll of Long-Term Unemployment: Examining the Interaction Effects of Gender and Marital Status

Gokce Basbug; Ofer Sharone

doi:10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.10

Article Information

vol. 3 no. 3 222-244

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.10

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online April 1, 2017.

© 2017 Russell Sage Foundation. Basbug, Gokce, and Ofer Sharone. 2017. “The Emotional Toll of Long-Term Unemployment: Examining the Interaction Effects of Gender and Marital Status.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 3(3): 222–44. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.10. The coauthors’ names are listed in alphabetical order. We are grateful for helpful feedback from Arne Kalleberg, Till von Wachter, Susan Silbey, Andrew Weaver, and the anonymous reviewers as well as participants of the Russell Sage Foundation conference, “The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession,” and the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research Workshop. The gathering of the qualitative data analyzed in this paper would not have been possible without the financial support of the AARP-Foundation and the volunteer efforts and expert support of numerous career coaches and counselors, including Amy Mazur, Deborah Burkholder, Rachelle Lappinen, Deb Elbaum, Arnold Clickstein, Maggie French, Allyn Gardner, Tammy Gooler Loeb, Clare Harlow, Patricia Wakefield, Kit Hayes, Cindy Key, Pam Lassiter, Ed Lawrence, Debbie Lipton, Tom McDonough, Sara Pacelle, Bonnie Petrovich, Martha Plotkin, Ilene Rudman, Lisa Shapiro, Gail Liebhaber, Robin Slavin, Mo Chanmugham, Deborah Federico, Melinda Fabiano, Arleen Bradley, Leigh Doherty, Suzy Drapkin, Patricia Weitzman, Melanie Hamon, Richard Johnson, Karen Samuelson, and Lou Yelgin. Direct correspondence to: Gokce Basbug at gbasbug@mit.edu, 100 Main Street, MIT Building E62-381, Cambridge, MA 02142; and Ofer Sharone at osharone@soc.umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Sociology, 528 Thompson Hall, Amherst, MA 01002. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.