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Title: Underemployment among Hispanics: the case of involuntary part-time work

Citation Type: Miscellaneous

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: The unemployment rate, a leading indicator of the nation’s economic health, has fallen steadily in the wake of the Great Recession of 2007–09. However, other indicators of labor force strength paint a more complex picture of how workers are faring economically. In this article, we use 1971–2014 data from the Current Population Survey to examine temporal changes in involuntary part-time work—an increasingly common type of underemployment. Our analysis identifies several shifts in involuntary part-time work, including high rates of such work among Hispanic workers since the late 1980s. While this form of underemployment grew substantially among all racial/ ethnic groups during the Great Recession, it was especially prevalent among foreign-born Hispanics, in particular those without citizenship. Although our analyses of 2014 data suggest that educational attainment accounts for much of these racial/ethnic and nativity gaps, other factors—namely, job skill, industry of employment,and occupational composition—also help explain the observed differential rates of involuntary part-time work.

Url: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2016/article/pdf/underemployment-among-hispanics.pdf

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Authors: Young, Justin, R; Mattingly, Marybeth, J

Publisher: Bureau of Labor Statistics

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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