William Austin Hamilton

Graduate Student of Sociology

University of Arizona

I am interested in inequality, poverty, economic and social policy, and employment in the U.S.

My current research examines the links between job insecurity and attitudes towards

social protection policies.

M.A. University of Arizona (Sociology)

M.A. Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University (Economics)

B.A. California State University, San Bernardino (Economics)

B.A. California State University, Fullerton (History and Liberal Studies)

"Family Policies, Education and Female Labor Market Participation in Advanced Capitalist Democracies"

Stryker, Robin, Scott R. Elliason, Eric Tranby, and William A. Hamilton.

Forthcoming in Social Policy in the New Europe, edited by Gary Cohen. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

"Insecure but not Indifferent: Job Insecurity and the Demand for Social Protection Policies in the United States"

(tentatively titled) "Self-Percieved Job Insecurity and Social Policy Preferences in Five OECD Countries"

"Growing Insecurity in a Shrinking World? Globalization-Associated Risk and Job Insecurity in the United States"

Contact information:

E-mail:  wah2@u.arizona.edu

Postal address:  Department of Sociology, University of Arizona, 1145 E. South Campus Drive, Tucson AZ 85721

Office:  Social Sciences 426