Youth underemployment: A review of research on young people and the problems of less(er) employment in an era of mass education.

Autor/inn/en	Churchill, Brendan; Khan, Chabel
Titel	Youth underemployment: A review of research on young people and the problems of less(er) employment in an era of mass education. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Jugendunterbeschäftigung: Ein Überblick über die Jugendforschung und die Probleme geringer(er) Beschäftigung im Zeitalter der Massenbildung.
Quelle	In: Sociology compass, 15 (2021) 10, Art. e12921, 14 S. PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1751-9020
DOI	10.1111/soc4.12921
Schlagwörter	Bildungsexpansion; Niedriglohn; Unterbeschäftigung; Arbeitssoziologie; Teilzeitbeschäftigung; Unterwertige Beschäftigung; Überqualifikation; Auswirkung; Heterogenität; Konzeption; Jugendlicher; Junger Erwachsener
Abstract	"In this article, we examine the problem of youth underemployment and how it is conceptualised, operationalised and understood within wider sociology, with particular focus on the sociology of youth and youth studies literature. We outline the contours of this body of work, showing how in most cases underemployment is undefined and used as a general term to describe the challenges and inadequacies of the contemporary labour market for young people. Further, we show how despite a lack of clarity, most researchers in this field contend that underemployment is increasing for young people, becoming a normative experience, cutting across class, ethnicity and gender. For some, however, underemployment is a 'choice', but as the literature shows, how different groups of young people respond to underemployment varies. In addition, we show how overeducation, another form of underemployment, is being understood by both researchers and young people as a 'new normal' rather than being challenged as another flank in the on-going neo-liberalisation and massification of education. We conclude with a call to think through the ideas presented and to develop new understandings of youth underemployment that can facilitate change. The sensitising concept of less(er) employment is proposed as best placed to facilitate this reanimation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2022/2