Article: Labor market effects of marijuana and cocaine use among young men. (Employment and Earnings Effects of Drug Use: Two Studies)

To say that the use of illicit drugs is viewed with alarm in the United States would surely be an understatement. Concern has focused not only on the personal tragedy and social repercussions of addiction, but also on the purported labor market implications of drug use. Society appears to have concluded that drug use, by impairing physical and mental abilities, necessarily leads to a reduction in workers' productivity. This conclusion is manifested in the increasing use of pre-employment and on-the-job drug testing by employers, a practice that seems to enjoy public support (Latessa, Travis, and Cullen 1988). By the late 1980s, over one million federal employees were ...

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