Measuring Underemployment

Preface1 Introduction 1.1 The Labor Utilization Framework 1.2 A Critique of the Labor Utilization Framework 1.3 The Data 1.4 The Organization of This Book2 Underemployment in the United States, 1969-19733 Information in the Measures of Invisible Underemployment 3.1 The Information in Full Versus Collapsed Cross-Tables 3.2 The Information in Invisible Underemployment Relative to Age, Race, Sex, and Time-Period Differentials 3.3 The Information in Invisible Underemployment Relative to Region, Family Type, and Place of Residence 3.4 Conclusion4 The Effect of Changing Demographic Composition on the Crude Indicators of Underemployment 4.1 The Time-Period Heterogeneity of the Labor Force 4.2 The "Intrinsic" Time-Period Change in the Labor Market 4.3 A Rationale for Considering Age Distribution in the Construction of Underemployment Indicators 4.4 Age Effects for the Total Population and the Total Labor Force Aged 20-64 4.5 Conclusion5 Latent Class Structure in the Distribution of Labor Market Rewards 5.1 The Latent Class Perspective in the Analysis of Underemployment 5.2 The 1970 Data 5.3 The Basic Model 5.4 Latent Class Models for the 1970 Data, Including Probabilistic Scale Models 5.5 Other Models for the 1970 Data 5.6 Time-Period Heterogeneity in Structural Parameters of a Dual Labor Force Model, and New Indicators of Underemployment 5.7 Differentials in Latent Class Structure for the Race-Sex Groups, 1970 5.8 Conclusion6 The Dependence of Labor Force Status on Age, Time-Period, and Cohort 6.1 The Data 6.2 Multiplicative Models for Cohort Analysis Based upon Successive Sample Surveys 6.3 The Concept of a Cohort Effect: Statistical Differentiation among Cohorts and the Tempo of Social Change 6.4 The Goodness-of-Fit of Cohort Models Accounting for the Age-Time-Periodcohort-Specific Distribution among the Labor Force Statuses, for Males and Females by Race 6.5 Identified Cohort Parameters, Showing the Tempo of Social Change in the Labor Force 6.6 The "True" Across-Time Variation in Labor Force Status: The Case of White Males 6.7 Some Other Cohort Models 6.8 Conclusion7 Trending and Forecasting Underemployment: Log-Linear Models and Population Projection 7.1 Forecasting Underemployment by Log-Linear Time-Trend Models 7.2 Forecasting Underemployment with the Population Projection Matrix8 Underemployment in the Life History of Synthetic Cohorts 8.1 Expectation of Life in the Various Labor Force Statuses: Underemployment History for Males and Females by Race Given 1970 Conditions 8.2 Across-Time Comparisons of Life Expectations and of other Quantities Associated with the Modified Life Table 8.3 the Long-Run Consequences of Sustained Decreases in Underemployment 8.4 The Implications of a Meritocracy for Labor Force History for the Race-Sex Subpopulations 8.5 A Formal Account of "Eventual Productive Value" 8.6 Conclusion9 Some New Directions for Mathematical Demography 9.1 The Relationship Between Underemployment and the Intrinsic Rate of Growth in a Stable Population 9.2 The Age Distribution of Employment Opportunity: The Constant Age Elasticity of Underemployment10 Conclusion 10.1 Methods 10.2 Time-Period Heterogeneity in the Labor Force and the Theory of Frictional Underemployment 10.3 Latent Class Structure and Labor Market (Labor Force) Dualism 10.4 Cohort Differentiation with Respect to Labor Force Status and the Tempo of Cohort-Induced Social Change 10.5 Interaction of Race-Sex Groups in a Constrained Labor Market 10.6 ConclusionAppendix A Operational Procedures for Applying the Labor Utilization Framework to the March Current Population Survey A.1 Not in Labor Force A.2 Sub-Unemployed A.3 Unemployed A.4 Underemployed by Low Hours A.5 Underemployment by Low Income A.6 Underemployed by Mismatch A.