Underemployment and the Lack of Wage Pressure in the UK

Bell, David; Blanchflower, David G.

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“…In our previous papers, we examined underemployment in the UK using micro-data (Bell and Blanchflower, 2011, 2018a, 2018b. The data used in this and the previous studies are the quarterly LFS.…”

Section: The Rise In Underemploymentmentioning

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“…In previous work, we have focused on the extent of underemployment, the characteristics of the underemployed (Bell and Blanchflower, 2011, 2018a, 2019, and most recently on its role in wage determination (Bell and Blanchflower, 2018b). We have shown that underemployment increased sharply (and overemployment decreased) at the start of the Great Recession in 2008 across much of Europe.…”

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The well-being of the overemployed and the underemployed and the rise in depression in the UK

Bell

Blanchflower

2019

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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The well-being of the overemployed and the underemployed and the rise in depression in the UK

Bell

Blanchflower

2019

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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“…Part-time jobs rarely provide a good hourly wage, with ramifications for workers' financial security in the short and longer terms, and hourly wages can be particularly poor for workers employed in lower level occupations (Bardasi & Gornick, 2008;Harkness, Borkowska, & Pelikh, 2019). Much of the evidence for the picture of poorly paying part-time jobs is based on women workers, but postrecession studies warned of lowering wages for male part-timers (Belfield et al, 2017;Bell & Blanchflower, 2018;Nightingale, 2019).…”

Section: The Qualit Y Of Men ' S Part-time Jobs and Occupational mentioning

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Ungrateful slaves? An examination of job quality and job satisfaction for male part‐time workers in the UK

Warren

Lyonette

2020

British Journal of Sociology

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Research on part‐time work has concentrated over many decades on the experiences of women but male part‐time employment is growing in the UK. This article addresses two sizable gaps in knowledge concerning male part‐timers: are men's part‐time jobs of lower quality than men's full‐time jobs? Are male part‐timers more or less job‐satisfied compared to their full‐time peers? A fundamental part of both interrogations is whether men's part‐time employment varies by occupational class. The article is motivated by the large body of work on female part‐timers. Its theoretical framework is rooted in one of the most controversial discussions in the sociology of women workers: the “grateful slave” debate that emerged in the 1990s when researchers sought to explain why so many women expressed job satisfaction with low‐quality part‐time jobs. Innovatively, this article draws upon those contentious ideas to provide new insights into male, rather than female, part‐time employment. Based upon analysis of a large quantitative data set, the results provide clear evidence of low‐quality male part‐time employment in the UK, when compared with men's full‐time jobs. Men working part‐time also express deteriorating satisfaction with jobs overall and in several specific dimensions of their jobs. Male part‐timers in lower occupational class positions retain a clear “lead” both in bad job quality and low satisfaction. The article asks whether decreasingly satisfied male part‐time workers should be termed “ungrateful slaves?” It unpacks the “grateful slave” metaphor and, after doing so, rejects its value for the ongoing analysis of part‐time jobs in the formal labor market.

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“…Fernández-Kranz and Rodríguez-Planas (2011) also show that the penalty is persistent across the years. See also Bell and Blanchflower (2018b) for analysis specific to the UK. the subject of a large literature.…”

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Job Polarization and the Declining Fortunes of the Young

Dabla‐Norris

Pizzinelli²,

Rappaport³

2019

IMF Working Papers

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This paper uses a life-cycle framework to document new stylized facts about the nexus between job polarization and earnings inequality. Using quarterly labor force data for the UK over the period 2000-2018, we find clear life-cycle profiles in the probability of being employed within each occupation type and wages earned therein. Cohort plots and econometric analysis suggest that labor market outcomes and prospects have gradually worsened for the young. These adverse trends are particularly significant for low-skill women: estimated cohort effects point to a fall in wages within each occupation as well as a lower propensity of being employed in abstract-task occupations. We also find evidence of general occupational downgrading in the UK, with more educated workers taking up fewer high-skill occupations than they did in the past. Our analysis informs the policy debate over appropriate measures needed to reduce skill mismatches and alleviate labor market transitions.

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Underemployment and the Lack of Wage Pressure in the UK

Cited by 32 publications

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The well-being of the overemployed and the underemployed and the rise in depression in the UK

The well-being of the overemployed and the underemployed and the rise in depression in the UK

Ungrateful slaves? An examination of job quality and job satisfaction for male part‐time workers in the UK

Job Polarization and the Declining Fortunes of the Young

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