An Equity-based Redefinition of Underemployment and Unemployment and Some Measurements
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9256923 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bijou Yang Lester, Roger A Mccain |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 133-159 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Social Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6764 • E-ISSN: 1470-1162 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00346760121932 |
| OpenAlex | W2008416410 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
An attempt is made in this article to redefine underemployment and unemployment without making reference to an excess supply of labor or any causal mechanism of unemployment. Instead, underemployment and unemployment are defined in terms of equity which draws upon the individual's preferences. A specific proposal is that underemployment be defined by the presence of contribution inequity relative to at least half the persons employed in a field that the underemployed person might prefer to move into. Empirically, most recent survey data on preferences for contingent and other nontraditional employment are used to illustrate the application of the concept. The major finding is that nearly 10 million Americans in the nontraditional workforce are underemployed
Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Equity (law) · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Political science · Underemployment · Unemployment · Workforce · Economic Policies and Impacts · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |