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The single criterion of current employment status used by Dowling and O'Brien (1981) to define “employed” and “unemployed” groups is questioned. The two groups may have differed little in mean duration of unemployment, which may account for their similarity on mean “work values”.
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E. E. Rump (1983) studied this question.
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