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Marginal Workers, Marginal Jobs : The Underutilization of American Workers / Teresa A. Sullivan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1978Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781477305157
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.1/1/0973
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Charts -- Foreword -- Preface -- CHAPTER I Approaching Labor Underutilization and Labor Marginality -- CHAPTER 2 Who Are the Marginal Workers? -- CHAPTER 3 How Do You Measure Underutilization? -- CHAPTER 4 Data, Methods, and Time Effects -- CHAPTER 5 The Idiosyncrasy Hypothesis: Employment of the Disabled -- CHAPTER 6 The Discrimination Hypothesis: Age -- CHAPTER 7 The Discrimination Hypothesis: Race and Sex -- CHAPTER 8 The Discrimination Hypothesis: Interactions -- CHAPTER 9 The Achievement Hypothesis: Effects of Training -- CHAPTER 10 The Structural Hypothesis: Marginal Jobs -- CHAPTER 11 Conclusions and Recommendations -- APPENDIX A Data Adequacy and Methods -- APPENDIX B Measuring Involuntary Part-time Employment -- APPENDIX C Measuring Underutilization by Level of Income -- APPENDIX D Measuring Mismatch -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Unemployment levels have received a great deal of attention and discussion in recent years. However, another labor category—underemployment—has virtually been ignored. Underutilized or underemployed workers are those who are experiencing inadequate hours of work, insufficient levels of income, and mismatch of occupation and skills. Marginal Workers, Marginal Jobs addresses two principal issues: how can we measure underemployment, and how can we explain its prevalence? To answer the first question, Teresa Sullivan examines yardsticks in use, demonstrates their inadequacy, and develops a different measure that is easy to interpret and is usable by both demographers and economists. In answering the second, she analyzes 1960 and 1970 census data to determine the relative effects of population composition and job structure on levels of employment. One of the important contributions of Sullivan's study is to distinguish between marginal workers and marginal jobs in explaining underutilization. Previous explanations, including the widely used dual market theory, have not stressed this analytic distinction. In addition, her work accounts separately for the various types of marginality and seeks to show the condition of workers who are marginal on more than one count—for example, those who are both young and black, or old and female. A provocative study based on large samples of the U.S. population, this book raises important questions about a critical subject and makes a significant contribution to the theory of underutilization.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Charts -- Foreword -- Preface -- CHAPTER I Approaching Labor Underutilization and Labor Marginality -- CHAPTER 2 Who Are the Marginal Workers? -- CHAPTER 3 How Do You Measure Underutilization? -- CHAPTER 4 Data, Methods, and Time Effects -- CHAPTER 5 The Idiosyncrasy Hypothesis: Employment of the Disabled -- CHAPTER 6 The Discrimination Hypothesis: Age -- CHAPTER 7 The Discrimination Hypothesis: Race and Sex -- CHAPTER 8 The Discrimination Hypothesis: Interactions -- CHAPTER 9 The Achievement Hypothesis: Effects of Training -- CHAPTER 10 The Structural Hypothesis: Marginal Jobs -- CHAPTER 11 Conclusions and Recommendations -- APPENDIX A Data Adequacy and Methods -- APPENDIX B Measuring Involuntary Part-time Employment -- APPENDIX C Measuring Underutilization by Level of Income -- APPENDIX D Measuring Mismatch -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Unemployment levels have received a great deal of attention and discussion in recent years. However, another labor category—underemployment—has virtually been ignored. Underutilized or underemployed workers are those who are experiencing inadequate hours of work, insufficient levels of income, and mismatch of occupation and skills. Marginal Workers, Marginal Jobs addresses two principal issues: how can we measure underemployment, and how can we explain its prevalence? To answer the first question, Teresa Sullivan examines yardsticks in use, demonstrates their inadequacy, and develops a different measure that is easy to interpret and is usable by both demographers and economists. In answering the second, she analyzes 1960 and 1970 census data to determine the relative effects of population composition and job structure on levels of employment. One of the important contributions of Sullivan's study is to distinguish between marginal workers and marginal jobs in explaining underutilization. Previous explanations, including the widely used dual market theory, have not stressed this analytic distinction. In addition, her work accounts separately for the various types of marginality and seeks to show the condition of workers who are marginal on more than one count—for example, those who are both young and black, or old and female. A provocative study based on large samples of the U.S. population, this book raises important questions about a critical subject and makes a significant contribution to the theory of underutilization.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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