The underemployed: evidence from the UK labour force survey for a conditionally gendered top-down model?

Cam, Surhan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5524-0429 2014. The underemployed: evidence from the UK labour force survey for a conditionally gendered top-down model? Journal of Social Science Studies 1 (2) , pp. 47-65.

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Abstract

Systematic research into underemployment is limited in Britain and specific analyses of its relation to work-status are largely missing from the academic debate. The present study explores the impact of work-status on underemployment along with references to demographic indicators. We examine Labour Force Survey data through logistic regressions. Our results fit into what one might call a conditionally gendered top-down model: As measured by work-place characteristics, work-contracts and occupational levels, one’s status at work inversely correlates with the likelihood of underemployment. Such a top-down propensity largely reflects a decline in demand for lower skills in the UK since the beginning of the recession in 2008. The model also has a gendered character which helps explain a relatively higher rise in female underemployment amid the economic downturn. However, this character rather takes a conditional form due to opposite gender disparities in different work settings. In female-dominated works including sales, customer services and part-time jobs, for example, women’s underemployment is lower than men’s, but it is higher in elementary occupations, especially because of glass-ceiling.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Underemployment, Work-Status, Gender, Recession, Precarious Work
Publisher:	Macrothink Institute
ISSN:	2329-9150
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Date of Acceptance:	23 January 2014
Last Modified:	06 May 2023 22:41
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/67809

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