JOBS Publications

Barry, M. (2005). Preliminary Finds for the "Winning New Jobs" Programme in Ireland. Galway, Ireland: Centre for Health Promotion Studies, The National University of Ireland, Galway.

Caplan, R. D., Vinokur, A. D., Price, R. H. (1997). From job loss to reemployment: field experiments in prevention-focused coping. In G. W. Albee & T. P. Gullotta (Eds.) Primary prevention works. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Issues in children's and families' lives, (vol. 16, pp. 341-379). Download: .pdf

Caplan, R. D., Vinokur, A. D., Price, R. H., & van Ryn, M. (1989). Job seeking, reemployment, and mental health: A randomized field experiment in coping with job loss. Journal of Applied Psychology, 74(5), 759-769. Download: .pdf

Choi, J., Price, R.H., & Vinokur, A.D. (2003). Self-efficacy changes in groups: Effects of diversity, leadership, and group climate. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 24(4), 357-372. Download: .pdf

Curran, J., Wishart, P., & Gingrich, J.  (1999).  JOBS:  A Manual for Teaching People Successful Job Search Strategies.  Michigan Prevention Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.  (Replaces JOBS manual by Curran, J., 1992).  Download: .pdf

Fang, L., & Ling, W. (Eds.). (2001). Jobs in China: A seven city project. Beijing, People's Republic of China: Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Howe, G. W., Caplan, R. D., Foster, D., Lockshin, M., & McGrath, C. (1995). When couples cope with job loss. A research strategy for developing preventive interventions. In L.R. Murphy, S. L. S. J.J. Hurrell, & G.P. Keita (Eds.), Job stress interventions (pp. 131- 158). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Download: .pdf

Jo, B. (2002). Estimation of intervention effects with noncompliance: Alternative model specifications. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 27(4), 385-420. Download: .pdf

JOBS II: Michigan Prevention Research Center: The JOBS Project for the Unemployed: Update. (April 2003). Michigan Prevention Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,MI. Download: .pdf

Kessler, R. C., & Price, R. H. (1993). Primary prevention of secondary disorders: A proposal and agenda. American Journal of Community Psychology, 21(5), 607-634. Download:.pdf

Kessler, R. C., Turner, B., & House, J. S. (1988). Effects of unemployment on health in a community survey: Main, modifying, and mediating effects. Journal of Social Issues, 44(4),69-86. Download:.pdf

Kessler, R., Turner, J., & House, J. (1987). Intervening processes in the relationship between unemployment and health. Psychological Medicine, 17(4), 949-961. Download:.pdf

Lee, S.J., & Vinokur, A.D. (2007). Work barriers in the context of pathways to the employment of welfare-to-work clients. American Journal of Community Psychology, 40(3-4), 301-312. Download: pdf

Little, R., & Yau, L. (1998). Statistical techniques for analyzing data from prevention trials: Treatment of no-shows using Rubin's causal model . Psychological Methods, 3(2), 147-159. Download:.pdf

Peng, Y., Little, R.J.A., & Raghunathan, T.E.  (2004).  An extended general location model for causal inferences from data subject to noncompliance and missing values.  Biometrics, 60, 598-607.  Download: .pdf

Price, R.H. (2006). Cultural collaboration: Implementing the JOBS program in China, California, and Finland. In C.M. Hosman (Ed.), Proceedings of the London Second World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Mental and Behavioural Disorders. London: World Federation for Mental Health. Download: .pdf

Price, R.H. (2003). Understanding and improving the mental health of populations. In J.S. House, R.L. Kahn, F.T. Juster, H. Schuman & E. Singer (Eds.), Telescope on society: Survey research and social science at the University of Michigan and beyond. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press. Download: .pdf

Price, R.H. (2001). Winning new jobs in China. Preface in L. Fang & W. Ling (Eds.), Jobs in China: A seven city project. Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China. Download: .pdf

Price, R.H. & Fang, Liluo. (2002). Unemployed Chinese workers: The survivors, the worried young and the discouraged old. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 13(3), 416-430. Download: .pdf

Price, R. H., Vinokur, A.D., & Friedland, D.S. (2002). The job seeker role as resource in achieving reemployment and enhancing mental health new directions. In A. Maney & J. Ramos (Ed.) Socioeconomic conditions, stress and mental health disorders: Toward a new synthesis of research and public policy. Washington, D.C.: NIMH http://www.mhsip.org/nimhdoc/socioeconmh_home.htm Download: .pdf

Price, R. H., Friedland, D. S., Choi, J., & Caplan, R. D. (1998). Job loss and work transitions in a time of global economic change. In X. Arriaga, & S. Oskamp (Eds.), Addressing community problems (pp. 195-222). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Download: .pdf

Price, R. H., Friedland, D. S., & Vinokur, A. D.  (1998).  Job loss:  Hard times and eroded identity.  In J. Harvey (Ed.), Perspectives on loss:  A source book (pp. 303-316).  Philadelphia, PA:  Taylor & Francis.  Download: .pdf

Price, R. H., & Vinokur, A. D. (1995). Supporting career transitions in a time of organizational downsizing: The Michigan JOBS Program. In M. London (Ed.), Employees, careers and job creation: Developing growth-oriented human resource strategies and programs (pp. 191-209). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. Download: .pdf

Price, R. H., van Ryn, M., & Vinokur, A. D. (1992). Impact of preventive job search intervention on the likelihood of depression among the unemployed. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 33(2), 158-167. Download: .pdf

Price, R.H., Choi, J., & Vinokur, A.D. (2002). Links in the chain of adversity following job loss: How financial strain and loss of personal control lead to depression, impaired functioning, and poor health. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 7(4), 302-312. Download: .pdf

van Ryn, M., & Vinokur, A. D. (1992). How did it work? An examination of the mechanism through which a community intervention influenced job-search behavior among an unemployed sample. American Journal of Community Psychology, 20(5), 577-599. Download: .pdf

Vinokur, A. D. (1997). Job Security: Unemployment. In J.M. Stellman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Occupational Health and Safety (4th ed., pp. 34.31-34.32). Geneva: International Labor Office. Download: .pdf

Vinokur, A. D., Price, R. H., & Caplan, R. D.  (1996).  Hard times and hurtful partners:  How financial strain affects depression and relationship satisfaction of unemployed persons and their spouses.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,71(1), 166-179.  Download: .pdf

Vinokur, A. D., Price, R. H., Caplan, R. D., van Ryn, M., & Curran, J. (1995). The JOBS I preventive intervention for unemployed individuals: Short and long-term effects on reemployment and mental health. In L.R. Murphy, J.J. Hurrell, S.L. Sauter, & G.P. Keita (Eds.), Job stress interventions (pp. 125-138). Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association (NIOSH). Download: .pdf

Vinokur, A. D., Price, R. H., & Caplan, R. D. (1991). From field experiments to program implementation: Assessing the potential outcomes of an experimental intervention program for unemployed persons. American Journal of Community Psychology, 19(4), 543-562. Download: .pdf

Vinokur, A. D., Price, R. H., & Caplan, R. D. (1996). Hard times and hurtful partners: How financial strain affects depression and relationship satisfaction of unemployed persons and their spouses. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71(1), 166-179. Download: .pdf

Vinokur, A. D., Price, R. H., & Schul, Y. (1995). Impact of the JOBS intervention on unemployed workers varying in risk for depression. American Journal of Community Psychology, 23(1), 39-74. Download: .pdf

Vinokur, A.D., & Schul, Y. (2002). The web of coping resources and pathways to reemployment following a job loss. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 7(1), 68-83. Download: .pdf

Vinokur, A. D., & Schul, Y. (1997). Mastery and inoculation against setbacks as active ingredients in the JOBS intervention for the unemployed. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 65(5), 867-877. Download: .pdf

Vinokur, A. D., Schul, Y., Vuori, J., & Price, R. H. (2000). Two years after a job loss: Long term impact of the JOBS program on reemployment and mental health. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 5(1), 32-47. Download: .pdf

Vinokur. A. D., van Ryn, M., Gramlich, E. M., & Price, R. H.  (1991).  Long-term follow-up and benefit-cost analysis of the Jobs Program:  A preventive intervention for the unemployed.  Journal of Applied Psychology 76(2), 213-219.  Download: .pdf

Vinokur, A. D., & van Ryn, M. (1993). Social support and undermining in close relationships: Their independent effects on the mental health of unemployed persons. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65(2), 350-359. Download: .pdf

Vuori, J., Price, R.H., Mutanen, P., & Malmberg-Heimonen, I. (2005). Effective group training techniques in job-search training. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 10, 261-275. Download: pdf

Vuori, J., & Vinokur, A.D. (2005). Job search preparedness as a mediator of the effects of Tyohon job search intervention on reemployment and mental health. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26(3), 275-291. Download: pdf

Vuori, J., & Price, R.H. (2006). Promoting re-employment and mental health: A cross-cultural case study. In M. Barry & R. Jenkins, (Eds.) Implementing mental health promotion. Edinburgh: Elsevier.

Yau, L. H. Y., & Little, R. J. (In press (Dec 2001)). Inference for the complier-average causal effect from longitudinal data subject to noncompliance and missing data, with application to a job training assessment for the unemployed. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 96, 456, 1232-1244. Download: .pdf

Vuori, J., Silvonen, J., Vinokur, A.D., & Price, R.H. (2002). The Työhön Job Search Program in Finland: Benefits for the unemployed with risk of depression or discouragement. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 7(1), 5-19. Download: .pdf