TY - JOUR
T1 - Underemployment in America
T2 - Measurement and evidence
AU - Jensen, Leif
AU - Slack, Tim
N1 - Funding Information:
Support for this research was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture (NRICGP 98-35401-6157), by The Pennsylvania State University Agricultural Experiment Station Project 3501, and by the Population Research Institute, Penn State, which has core support from the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (1 R24 HD41025). We alone are responsible for any substantive or analytic errors.
PY - 2003/9
Y1 - 2003/9
N2 - An important way in which employment hardship has come to be conceptualized and measured is as underemployment. Underemployment goes beyond mere unemployment (being out of a job and looking for work), to include those who have given up looking for work, part-time workers whose employer(s) cannot give them full-time work, and the working poor. To provide needed background for the other articles in this special issue, we trace the history of the concept of underemployment, review existing empirical literature, offer a critique of the measurement of underemployment as conventionally operationalized, and provide up-to-date evidence on the trends and correlates of underemployment in the United States.
AB - An important way in which employment hardship has come to be conceptualized and measured is as underemployment. Underemployment goes beyond mere unemployment (being out of a job and looking for work), to include those who have given up looking for work, part-time workers whose employer(s) cannot give them full-time work, and the working poor. To provide needed background for the other articles in this special issue, we trace the history of the concept of underemployment, review existing empirical literature, offer a critique of the measurement of underemployment as conventionally operationalized, and provide up-to-date evidence on the trends and correlates of underemployment in the United States.
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1025686621578
DO - 10.1023/A:1025686621578
M3 - Review article
C2 - 14570432
AN - SCOPUS:1542540823
VL - 32
SP - 21
EP - 31
JO - American Journal of Community Psychology
JF - American Journal of Community Psychology
SN - 0091-0562
IS - 1-2
ER -