Linking job loss, inequality, mental health, and education

摘要: National politics in the United States, Great Britain, France, and elsewhere have focused attention on struggles of people regions where jobs been destroyed by globalization technology. Many residents these areas report anger frustration, whether or not they actually suffered job loss, fearing that their children will do as well have. When researchers began to identify forces increasing economic inequality ( 1 ), labor economists argued intergenerational upward mobility should increase hand-in-hand with inequality. This claim was predicated notion working-class youth, rather than following parents' footsteps now-closed factory, would pursue higher education join “knowledge economy.” Our work integrating economics developmental psychology, however, suggests local losses can both worsen adolescent mental health lower academic performance and, thus, income college attendance, particularly among African-American students those from poorest families.