abstract: 'The dynamics of labor force participation and joblessness during young

  adulthood influence access to social and material resources and shape

  exposure to different sources of psychosocial strain. Differences in

  these dynamics by race, ethnicity, and gender are related to changes in

  a behavioral determinant of poor health (tobacco use) for young adults

  aging into midlife. Using discrete-time hazards models, we estimate the

  relationship between labor force participation in the past year and

  smoking cessation for US adults (ages 14-21 years in 1979) followed in a

  population-representative sample until 1998 (i.e. the National

  Longitudinal Survey of Youth). We assess the unique role of racial,

  ethnic and gender differences in exposure, vulnerability, and reactivity

  to employment and joblessness by controlling for social and economic

  resources obtained through working and by controlling for early life

  factors that select individuals into certain labor force and smoking

  trajectories. There are three main findings: (1) joblessness is more

  strongly associated with persistent daily smoking among women than among

  men; (2) fewer social and economic resources for women out of the labor

  force compared to employed women explains their lower cessation rates;

  and (3) lower cessation among unemployed women compared to employed

  women can only partially be explained by these resources. These findings

  illustrate how differential access to work-related social and economic

  resources is an important mediator of poor health trajectories.

  Contextual factors such as social norms and psychosocial strains at work

  and at home may play a unique role among European American men and women

  in explaining gender differences in smoking (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All

  rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Weden, MM (Corresponding Author), Univ Wisconsin, 610 N Walnut St 1007
  WARF Off Bldg, Madison, WI 53726 USA.

  Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726 USA.

  Johns Hopkins Univ, Bloomberg Sch Publ Hlth, Baltimore, MD 21205 USA.'
author: Weden, MM and Astone, NM and Bishai, D
author-email: weden@wisc.edu
author_list:
- family: Weden
  given: MM
- family: Astone
  given: NM
- family: Bishai
  given: D
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.06.009
eissn: 1873-5347
files: []
issn: 0277-9536
journal: SOCIAL SCIENCE \& MEDICINE
keywords: 'USA; gender inequality; racial and ethnic differences; labor force

  participation; smoking cessation'
keywords-plus: 'UNITED-STATES; CIGARETTE-SMOKING; WORK-ENVIRONMENT; RISK-FACTORS;

  BEHAVIORAL DETERMINANTS; HEALTH BEHAVIORS; PROBLEM DRINKING; TOBACCO

  USE; JOB STRAIN; UNEMPLOYMENT'
language: English
month: JAN
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '89'
orcid-numbers: 'Weden, Margaret M/0000-0002-4832-8131

  Bishai, David/0000-0003-0714-9062'
pages: 303-316
papis_id: 77fba02df431ba58a2310c4aa955926e
ref: Weden2006racialethnic
researcherid-numbers: 'Weden, Margaret M/G-3060-2016

  , David Bishai/GRO-4211-2022

  '
times-cited: '38'
title: Racial, ethnic, and gender differences in smoking cessation associated with
  employment and joblessness through young adulthood in the US
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000234984100004
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '15'
volume: '62'
web-of-science-categories: 'Public, Environmental \& Occupational Health; Social Sciences,

  Biomedical'
year: '2006'