Underemployment Psychological, Economic, and Social Challenges
Underemployment:Psychological, Economic, and Social Challenges Douglas C. Maynard and Daniel C. Feldman, Editors While joblessness is a signature problem during times of economic stress, underemployment —the lack of adequate, meaningful work—aff
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Douglas C. Maynard · Daniel C. Feldman Editors
Underemployment Psychological, Economic, and Social Challenges
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Editors Douglas C. Maynard Department of Psychology State University of New York at New Paltz New Paltz, NY 12561, USA [email protected]
Daniel C. Feldman Terry College of Business University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602, USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-9412-7 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-9413-4 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-9413-4 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011928149 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank Christina Norman for the conscientious detail with which she assisted us on various administrative tasks during the beginning phases of this book project. The authors also wish to thank Sharon Panulla and Anna Tobias at Springer for their helpfulness and responsiveness throughout the process. Thanks also to Steven Rogelberg (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) for putting us in touch with Sharon. Finally, Doug Maynard would like to thank Amanda Maynard for her continued support and insights, beginning with the lunch date in graduate school in 1997 that initially inspired my interest in the topic.
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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Douglas C. Maynard and Daniel C. Feldman Part I
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Theoretical Approaches to Studying Underemployment
2 Economic Approaches to Studying Underemployment . . . . . . . Roger Wilkins and Mark Wooden
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3 Behavioral Science Approaches to Studying Underemployment . . Aleksandra Luksyte and Christiane Spitzmueller
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Part II
The Emergence of Underemployment in Work Populations
4 Youth Underemployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JoAnn Prause and David Dooley
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5 Underemployment and Older Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meghna Virick
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6 A Review of Women’s Experiences of Three Dimensions of Underemployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Johanna Weststar 7 Underemployment Among Minorities and Immigrants . . . . . . . Tim Slack and Leif Jensen 8 Understanding Underemployment Among Contingent Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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