Involuntary Part-Time Employment: A Slow and Uneven Economic
                        Recovery

Glauber, Rebecca

doi:10.34051/p/2020.289

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“…As part of our secondary analyses, we also found that rates of involuntary part-time work were higher for people who were women, non-White, or had an LGBT identity. These findings are consistent with other studies (Allan et al, 2016;BLS, 2018;Buffie, 2016;Glauber, 2017) and suggest that marginalized groups are more likely to struggle with work acquisition and retention, in comparison to majority groups. Although the overall effect sizes in these groups were small, these data also show that education is not necessarily "the great equalizer" in terms of job status.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Involuntary part-time work is also associated with a number of other precarious work situations, including temporary work and poverty wage employment, often resulting in uncertainty and instability (Allan et al, 2017). For example, the chances of earning below the poverty line is one in five involuntary part-time workers, compared to 1 in 20 full-time workers (Glauber, 2017). Moreover, approximately 5 million people (3.1%) in the U.S. labor market have involuntarily part-time work, but this has been much higher during economic downturns (BLS, 2018).…”

Section: Involuntary Part-time Workmentioning

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Moderators of involuntary part-time work and life satisfaction: A latent deprivation approach.

Allan

Kim

Liu

et al. 2020

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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Work plays a central role in people's lives, and professional psychologists have a stake in understanding how different work statuses affect people's well-being. Involuntary part-time work, in particular, represents a potentially harmful work status that professional psychologists can address with the appropriate evidence. Therefore, using latent deprivation theory as a guide, this study examined financial and experiential deprivation as moderators of the relation between involuntary part-time work and life satisfaction in a large sample of U.S. college graduates (N ϭ 61,251). We also examined mean differences in financial deprivation, experiential deprivation, and life satisfaction between employment status groups and examined group differences in the rates of involuntary part-time work. We found that involuntary part-time workers had greater financial and experiential deprivation and lower life satisfaction than other employment groups, except for people who were unemployed. We also found that financial and experiential deprivation moderated the relation between involuntary part-time work and life satisfaction. Specifically, people with lower financial and experiential deprivation were protected from the negative relation between involuntary part-time work and life satisfaction. Finally, we found that the rates of involuntary part-time work were higher for marginalized groups, such as women, people of color, and people with a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender identity. This study highlights the relation between involuntary part-time work and life satisfaction, the roles of financial and experiential deprivation, the importance of qualifying employment statuses on a continuum, and potential targets of intervention for professional psychologists. Public Significance StatementThis study found that involuntary part-time workers reported less life satisfaction than other employment groups, but those who had fewer financial concerns and more daily activity were protected from involuntary part-time work's negative relation with life satisfaction. This study suggests that professional psychologists should address issues of involuntary part-time work when conducting psychotherapy, consulting with organizations, and addressing systemic issues.

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Moderators of involuntary part-time work and life satisfaction: A latent deprivation approach.

Allan

Kim

Liu

et al. 2020

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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“…A growing literature on the behavior of the underemployed includes Sum and Khatiwada (2010); Cajner, Mawhirter, Nekarda, and Ratner (2014); Veliziotis, Matsaganis, and Karakitsios (2015); Golden (2016); Borowczyk-Martins and Lalé (2016, 2018); and Glauber (2017). Blanchflower and Levin (2015) showed that in the United States, the increase in the number of underemployed represents another dimension of labor underutilization.…”

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Underemployment in the United States and Europe

Bell¹,

Blanchflower

2019

ILR Review

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The authors produce estimates for a new and better rate of underemployment for 25 countries using the European Labor Force Survey that is based on workers’ reports of their preferred hours at the going wage. Both voluntary and involuntary part-time workers report they want more hours. Full-time workers who say they want to change their hours, mostly say they want to reduce them. When the Great Recession hit, the number of hours of those who said they wanted more hours increased, and the number of hours of those who said they wanted fewer hours decreased. The percentage of workers in both categories remains elevated. The authors provide evidence for the United Kingdom and the United States as well as from an international sample that underemployment lowers pay in the years after the Great Recession, but the unemployment rate does not. They also find evidence for the United States that decreases in the home ownership rate have helped to keep wage pressure in check. Underemployment replaces unemployment as the main influence on wages in the years since the Great Recession.

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“…Non-standard jobs do not typically provide predictable, fulltime employment with a "gold" standard set of benefits, and hence non-standard workers are less likely to have health insurance, compared to other workers. 3,4,[6][7][8] Prior studies have documented higher uninsurance rates for categories of non-standard workers defined by work hours (part-time workers) and self-employment. 9,10 Self-employed freelancers and gig economy workers also face challenges to obtaining health insurance coverage since they do not have access to employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) through their jobs.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While the flexibility of non-standard jobs may be appealing to some workers, many hold non-standard jobs involuntarily and some workers rely on a non-standard job as the only potential source of ESI. 8,11,12 Health insurance disparities for non-standard workers have many implications for clinicians. First, many non-standard workers face greater job hazards in the workplace.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Insurance Coverage for Non-standard Workers: Experiences of Temporary Workers, Freelancers, and Part-time Workers in the USA, 2010–2017

Berdahl

Moriya

2021

J GEN INTERN MED

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Objective To estimate insurance disparities across non-standard employment categories and to determine how coverage disparities shifted following health reform in 2014. Methods We analyzed nationally representative data on working-age adults from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) (2010–2012 and 2015–2017, N =79,182) to estimate insurance rates across three groups of non-standard workers (full-time temporary workers, freelancers, and part-time workers) compared to standard workers. Results Uninsurance decreased after health reform for all groups of non-standard workers, ranging from a 10.0- to 14.3-percentage point decline ( p <0.001). Yet, uninsurance rates remained high for freelancers (30.8%), full-time temporary workers (25.1%), and part-time workers (17.9%) relative to standard workers (11.9%) in 2015–2017 ( p <0.001). Residence in a Medicaid expansion state was associated with lower uninsurance rates for all categories of workers. Conclusions Workers in non-standard jobs continue to face challenges obtaining health insurance coverage. Our findings highlight the continued high risk of uninsurance for full-time temporary workers and freelancers. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11606-021-06700-0.

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Involuntary Part-Time Employment: A Slow and Uneven Economic Recovery

Cited by 10 publications

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Moderators of involuntary part-time work and life satisfaction: A latent deprivation approach.

Moderators of involuntary part-time work and life satisfaction: A latent deprivation approach.

Underemployment in the United States and Europe

Insurance Coverage for Non-standard Workers: Experiences of Temporary Workers, Freelancers, and Part-time Workers in the USA, 2010–2017

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