Alec P Rhodes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alec P Rhodes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alec P |
| FAMILY NAME | Rhodes |
| SIGNATURE | RHODES A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5103-533X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
For what benefit? State Right to Work laws and employer-provided retirement and health insurance benefits
Employer-provided benefits add to total compensation and enhance economic security. Yet an increasing share of American workers lack access to employer-provided retirement and health insurance benefits, a trend that scholars link to labor union decline. I test whether state Right to Work (RTW) laws, which weaken associational worker power by targeting union security agreements, are associated with changes in employer-provided benefit coverage. Bu…
State Right to Work Laws and Economic Dynamism in U.S. Counties, 1946 to 2019
Do state Right to Work (RTW) laws unleash economic dynamism, or the ability for local economies to respond, thrive, and grow in changing conditions? Although the specific goals of RTW laws to limit union security agreements appear to narrowly target unionized firms, proponents and opponents alike argue that RTW laws have broad labor market consequences. Union monopoly theories suggest that unions increase labor costs and exert greater worker cont…
Unsecured Credit and the Social Safety Net in U.S. States
Low-income households in the United States draw on public and private resources to manage economic risk. Cross-national scholars describe a “credit–welfare state tradeoff” where credit markets become particularly important when state benefits are less supportive. The United States is frequently highlighted in this regard, with its often-inadequate market-first safety net. Both credit markets and the safety net are, however, highly unequal and seg…
Debt Collection Pressure and Mental Health
The debt collection industry in the United States has grown in tandem with rising indebtedness. Prior research on debt and mental health mainly treats debt as a resource and liability rather than a power relationship between creditors and debtors. We study the mental health consequences of debt collection pressure using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1997 Cohort (N = 7,236). Drawing on stress theory and health power resources…
The wealth returns to a unionized career
Drawing on power resources theory and life course theories of cumulative advantage, this article examines the wealth returns to a unionized career. Using longitudinal data on the working lives of US Baby Boomers and comprehensive measures of wealth at midlife, I find that the average wealth returns to unionized careers are substantial, exceeding $130,000 for marketable wealth. The average returns to a unionized career are even larger when defined…
Labor Unions, Debt, and Financial Advantage in Young Adulthood in the United States
Unionized workers experience significant labor market advantages. Do these advantages transfer to financial markets, including credit and consumer markets? We argue that union coverage facilitates financial advantages in young adulthood by enhancing access to wealth-building credit and avoidance of costly financial coping strategies. We extend a conceptual model of financial advantage based on young adults' debt holdings to the case of early care…
Racial-Ethnic Poverty Gaps in Later Life
Racial-ethnic disparities in poverty are an important form of inequality in older age. Recent scholarship on racial-ethnic poverty gaps demonstrates that, beyond individual characteristics and behaviors, racialized structural factors like employment contribute to such gaps. Yet surprisingly little is known about the role of employment quality, despite observed racial-ethnic disparities in employment quality and the role of employment history in s…
Mortgage Borrowing and Chronic Disease Outcomes in Older Age
Many older adults are not able or willing to liquidate housing wealth, and the ability to borrow also depends on changes in home values. Thus, housing wealth is not a uniform social determinant of health but is shaped by older adults' participation in financial markets
Inequality in high-cost borrowing and unemployment insurance generosity in US states during the Covid-19 pandemic
Labor Market Inequality, Debt, and the Consequences of Sub-Baccalaureate Higher Education
U.S. young adults in the 2000s and 2010s entered a national labor market that was highly stratified by education. While the socioeconomic consequences of a four-year bachelor's degree are well documented during this period, less is known about the consequences of seeking a sub-baccalaureate credential. I analyze the employment, earnings, and student debt outcomes associated with several sub-baccalaureate experiences differentiated by enrollment, …
Managing the onset of a new disease in older age
Student Debt and Geographic Disadvantage
American youth from rural backgrounds have made great strides to overcome challenges in college enrollment and completion since the 2000s. Yet little is known about how rural youth are financing these attainment increases-a pressing question in light of high college costs, rising student debt, and spatial inequality in the resources that students have to pay for college. This paper examines disparities in young adults' student debt by geographic …
Student Debt and Geographic Disadvantage
American youth from rural backgrounds have made great strides to overcome challenges in college enrollment and completion since the 2000s. Yet little is known about how rural youth are financing these attainment increases-a pressing question in light of high college costs, rising student debt, and spatial inequality in the resources that students have to pay for college. This paper examines disparities in young adults' student debt by geographic …
Inequality in high-cost borrowing and unemployment insurance generosity in US states during the Covid-19 pandemic
Managing the onset of a new disease in older age
Debt Collection Pressure and Mental Health
The debt collection industry in the United States has grown in tandem with rising indebtedness. Prior research on debt and mental health mainly treats debt as a resource and liability rather than a power relationship between creditors and debtors. We study the mental health consequences of debt collection pressure using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1997 Cohort (N = 7,236). Drawing on stress theory and health power resources…
The wealth returns to a unionized career
Drawing on power resources theory and life course theories of cumulative advantage, this article examines the wealth returns to a unionized career. Using longitudinal data on the working lives of US Baby Boomers and comprehensive measures of wealth at midlife, I find that the average wealth returns to unionized careers are substantial, exceeding $130,000 for marketable wealth. The average returns to a unionized career are even larger when defined…
Labor Unions, Debt, and Financial Advantage in Young Adulthood in the United States
Unionized workers experience significant labor market advantages. Do these advantages transfer to financial markets, including credit and consumer markets? We argue that union coverage facilitates financial advantages in young adulthood by enhancing access to wealth-building credit and avoidance of costly financial coping strategies. We extend a conceptual model of financial advantage based on young adults' debt holdings to the case of early care…
Racial-Ethnic Poverty Gaps in Later Life
Racial-ethnic disparities in poverty are an important form of inequality in older age. Recent scholarship on racial-ethnic poverty gaps demonstrates that, beyond individual characteristics and behaviors, racialized structural factors like employment contribute to such gaps. Yet surprisingly little is known about the role of employment quality, despite observed racial-ethnic disparities in employment quality and the role of employment history in s…
Labor Market Inequality, Debt, and the Consequences of Sub-Baccalaureate Higher Education
U.S. young adults in the 2000s and 2010s entered a national labor market that was highly stratified by education. While the socioeconomic consequences of a four-year bachelor's degree are well documented during this period, less is known about the consequences of seeking a sub-baccalaureate credential. I analyze the employment, earnings, and student debt outcomes associated with several sub-baccalaureate experiences differentiated by enrollment, …
Managing the onset of a new disease in older age
Student Debt and Geographic Disadvantage
American youth from rural backgrounds have made great strides to overcome challenges in college enrollment and completion since the 2000s. Yet little is known about how rural youth are financing these attainment increases-a pressing question in light of high college costs, rising student debt, and spatial inequality in the resources that students have to pay for college. This paper examines disparities in young adults' student debt by geographic …
Mortgage Borrowing and Chronic Disease Outcomes in Older Age
Many older adults are not able or willing to liquidate housing wealth, and the ability to borrow also depends on changes in home values. Thus, housing wealth is not a uniform social determinant of health but is shaped by older adults' participation in financial markets
Inequality in high-cost borrowing and unemployment insurance generosity in US states during the Covid-19 pandemic
Labor Market Inequality, Debt, and the Consequences of Sub-Baccalaureate Higher Education
U.S. young adults in the 2000s and 2010s entered a national labor market that was highly stratified by education. While the socioeconomic consequences of a four-year bachelor's degree are well documented during this period, less is known about the consequences of seeking a sub-baccalaureate credential. I analyze the employment, earnings, and student debt outcomes associated with several sub-baccalaureate experiences differentiated by enrollment, …
Debt Collection Pressure and Mental Health
The debt collection industry in the United States has grown in tandem with rising indebtedness. Prior research on debt and mental health mainly treats debt as a resource and liability rather than a power relationship between creditors and debtors. We study the mental health consequences of debt collection pressure using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1997 Cohort (N = 7,236). Drawing on stress theory and health power resources…
The wealth returns to a unionized career
Drawing on power resources theory and life course theories of cumulative advantage, this article examines the wealth returns to a unionized career. Using longitudinal data on the working lives of US Baby Boomers and comprehensive measures of wealth at midlife, I find that the average wealth returns to unionized careers are substantial, exceeding $130,000 for marketable wealth. The average returns to a unionized career are even larger when defined…
Labor Unions, Debt, and Financial Advantage in Young Adulthood in the United States
Unionized workers experience significant labor market advantages. Do these advantages transfer to financial markets, including credit and consumer markets? We argue that union coverage facilitates financial advantages in young adulthood by enhancing access to wealth-building credit and avoidance of costly financial coping strategies. We extend a conceptual model of financial advantage based on young adults' debt holdings to the case of early care…
Racial-Ethnic Poverty Gaps in Later Life
Racial-ethnic disparities in poverty are an important form of inequality in older age. Recent scholarship on racial-ethnic poverty gaps demonstrates that, beyond individual characteristics and behaviors, racialized structural factors like employment contribute to such gaps. Yet surprisingly little is known about the role of employment quality, despite observed racial-ethnic disparities in employment quality and the role of employment history in s…
For what benefit? State Right to Work laws and employer-provided retirement and health insurance benefits
Employer-provided benefits add to total compensation and enhance economic security. Yet an increasing share of American workers lack access to employer-provided retirement and health insurance benefits, a trend that scholars link to labor union decline. I test whether state Right to Work (RTW) laws, which weaken associational worker power by targeting union security agreements, are associated with changes in employer-provided benefit coverage. Bu…
State Right to Work Laws and Economic Dynamism in U.S. Counties, 1946 to 2019
Do state Right to Work (RTW) laws unleash economic dynamism, or the ability for local economies to respond, thrive, and grow in changing conditions? Although the specific goals of RTW laws to limit union security agreements appear to narrowly target unionized firms, proponents and opponents alike argue that RTW laws have broad labor market consequences. Union monopoly theories suggest that unions increase labor costs and exert greater worker cont…
Unsecured Credit and the Social Safety Net in U.S. States
Low-income households in the United States draw on public and private resources to manage economic risk. Cross-national scholars describe a “credit–welfare state tradeoff” where credit markets become particularly important when state benefits are less supportive. The United States is frequently highlighted in this regard, with its often-inadequate market-first safety net. Both credit markets and the safety net are, however, highly unequal and seg…
Economics (9 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Finance (6 works) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (5 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Debt (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Inequality (4 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (4 works)