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Underemployment and Local Employment Dynamics: New Evidence

The Review of Regional Studies

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Title Underemployment and Local Employment Dynamics: New Evidence
 
Creator Bonnal, Michaƫl
Lira, Cristina
Addy, Samuel N.
 
Description Workers in occupations that underutilize their experience, training, and skills are underemployed. Underemployment occurs for various reasons including productivity growth, spousal employment and income, family constraints, spatial restrictions, or personal preferences. Underemployment provides opportunities for selective job creation and economic growth. Using local employment dynamics (LED) and a statewide survey of the employed and nonworkers for 2004 and 2005, we examine the interaction between underemployment and LED. We show that poor local labor market conditions accentuate the perception of underemployment and lead to higher level of underemployment. Gender and ethnic differentials are also revealed in the characteristics of the underemployed.
 
Publisher Southern Regional Science Association
 
Date 2009-12-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journal.srsa.org/ojs/index.php/RRS/article/view/202
 
Source The Review of Regional Studies; Vol 39, No 3 (2009); 317-335
0048-749X
1553-0892
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journal.srsa.org/ojs/index.php/RRS/article/view/202/157