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Title: Underemployment: A SociaL Ecological Perspective
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Prause, JoAnn |
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Underemployment: A SociaL Ecological Perspective Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California - Irvine, 1991 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Education, Guidance and Counseling; Hispanics; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Racial Differences; Schooling; Self-Esteem; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Underemployment; Unemployment This research examines whether early measures of educational, occupational, and psychological factors are determinants of economic underemployment as defined by unemployment, involuntary part-time work, intermittent unemployment, and low income. Individuals were termed "chronically underemployed" if they experienced one of these forms of economic underemployment for two or three of the years 1985-87. The data source was the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, restricted to respondents with high school attitude data acquired in 1979. Logistic regression was utilized to model the risk of chronic underemployment as a function of educational, occupational, psychological and control variables. The results demonstrated that high school occupational attitudes did not increase the odds of persistent underemployment five to seven years later. What did increase the odds of persisitent and chronic underemployment was: low self-esteem, more so for males than for females; rural residences, younger ages, and living in areas with higher local unemployment rates; negative perceptions toward high school peer relations and job counseling; less than 12 years of education, more so for females than for males; no spouse present relative to those with a spouse present; and a history of underemployment, more so for blacks/hispanics than for non-blacks/non-hispanics. Regional variations in chronic underemployment were evident by race and sex where blacks/hispanics were more likely to be underemployed relative to non-blacks/non-hispanics, more so in the Northcentral and Southern regions as compared to the Northeastern and Western regions. Females relative to males had a greater risk of underemployment in the South followed by the West. In the Northeastern and Northcentral regions, females and males were equally likely to be chronically underemployed. These results suggest that there is a pool of relatively young adults who are persistently underemployed. The extent to which this "early career" underemployment will affect their future labor market participation and employment quality remains to be seen. |
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Prause, JoAnn. Underemployment: A SociaL Ecological Perspective. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California - Irvine, 1991. |