TY - JOUR
T1 - Underemployment in Australia
T2 - a panel investigation
AU - Kler, Parvinder
AU - Potia, Azhar Hussain
AU - Shankar, Sriram
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - This 2001–2013 panel study finds 33% of part-time employees to be underemployed, disproportionately affecting males, immigrants, youth, the blue-collared and new to our study, those on casual contracts. Within the underemployed sample, we report that the gap between preferred and actual hours (working hour tension) also varies by personal and labour characteristics, largely consistent with that found for the determinants of underemployment. The continued growth of part-time employment and casualization in recent years has been more pronounced among males, raising their rates of underemployment as they disproportionately prefer to work more hours vis-à-vis their part-time female peers.
AB - This 2001–2013 panel study finds 33% of part-time employees to be underemployed, disproportionately affecting males, immigrants, youth, the blue-collared and new to our study, those on casual contracts. Within the underemployed sample, we report that the gap between preferred and actual hours (working hour tension) also varies by personal and labour characteristics, largely consistent with that found for the determinants of underemployment. The continued growth of part-time employment and casualization in recent years has been more pronounced among males, raising their rates of underemployment as they disproportionately prefer to work more hours vis-à-vis their part-time female peers.
KW - Underemployment
KW - casual employment
KW - working hours
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85012077552&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13504851.2017.1290770
DO - 10.1080/13504851.2017.1290770
M3 - Article
SN - 1350-4851
VL - 25
SP - 24
EP - 28
JO - Applied Economics Letters
JF - Applied Economics Letters
IS - 1
ER -