The Nation's underemployed in the "Great Recession" of 2007-09.

Autor/inn/en	Sum, Andrew; Khatiwada, Ishwar
Titel	The Nation's underemployed in the "Great Recession" of 2007-09. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Unterbeschäftigten der Nation in der "Großen Rezession" von 2007-2009.
Quelle	In: Monthly labor review, 133 (2010) 11, S. 3-15 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0027-044X; 0098-1818; 1937-4658
Schlagwörter	Rasse; Arbeitszeitverkürzung; Einkommensverteilung; Lohngruppe; Niedriglohn; Rezession; Unterbeschäftigung; Wirtschaftskrise; Niedrig Qualifizierter; Qualifikationsstruktur; Teilzeitbeschäftigung; Auswirkung; USA
Abstract	"The Nation's labor markets were deeply affected by the deteriorating economic conditions that began in December 2007 and continued for the next 2 years. Some analysts have referred to this period as the 'Great Recession' of 2007-09. Despite what appears to have been a technical end to the recession in the summer of 2009, in the second half of that year labor market problems of workers continued to worsen. Both formal payroll and civilian employment levels continued to fall through the end of 2009, and the unemployment rate remained at or slightly above 10 percent in the last 3 months of the year. Besides the high unemployment rate, underemployment has increased markedly over the past 2 years, driving up the Nation's overall labor underutilization rate, especially among teens and young adults, the less educated, Black and Hispanic men, and blue-collar workers. This article identifies and assesses changes in the size and demographic and socioeconomic composition of the Nation's underemployed workers during the course of the recession of 2007-09. Comparing recent trends in the numbers of underemployed workers with those in the previous three recessions (2001, 1990-91, and 1981-82) and over the entire 1994-2009 period, the article goes on to identify the magnitude of the losses in hours worked, weekly earnings, and aggregate annual earnings due to the rise in underemployment during the recession (through the fourth quarter of 2009). Although the growth in the national pool of underemployed workers has received some attention from labor market analysts and from the national and local media, little attention has been paid to who these underemployed workers are, what types of jobs they hold, and the size of their weekly hours and earnings losses. The analysis that follows seeks to overcome this absence of detailed information, because at no time over the past 30 years has underemployment been so big a problem. It begins with a review of the existing monthly measures of underemployment in the United States from the Current Population Survey (CPS), a national household survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Sekundäranalyse. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1981 bis 2009. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2011/2