Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; The Theories of Underemployment; Introduction; Neoclassical Theory and Underemployment; Underemployment, Oligopoly, and Unions; The Empirical Evidence of Underemployment; The Discouraged Workers; The Unemployed; Involuntary Part-Time Workers; Low Income Full-Time Workers; The Keynesian Critique; The Structural Underemployment Controversy; The Classical Marxist Approach to Underemployment; The Segmentation Perspective
The Institutionalist and Neo-Institutionalist EconomistsThe Dual Economy and The Dual Labor Market; Neo-structuralism and The Determination of Underemployment; The Neo-structuralist Critique. Does it Stand?; Efficiency Wage Theories and Underemployment; Efficiency Wage Theories: Some Critiques, ; Efficiency Wage Theories and Labor Market Discrimination; Deindustrialization and Underemployment; Conclusion; Chapter 2; The Modeling of Underemployment; Introduction; The Data; The Model; A Multinomial Ordinal Model for Underemployment; Operationalization of The Variables; Conclusion; Chapter 3
Estimation and FindingsIntroduction; The Estimation of The Ordinal Polytomous Model; The Effect of Ethnicity and Gender on Underemployment; The Effect of Unionization on Underemployment; Conclusion; Chapter 4; A Multinomial Logit Model of Under employment; Introduction; The Critique of the Ordinality Assumption; A Multinomial Logit Model of Underemployment; The Estimation of the Multinomial Logit Model of Underemployment; Conclusion; Chapter 5; Underemployment and Migration: Does Foreign Origin Matter?; Introduction; Data and Methods; Operationalization of the Variables; The Model; Findings
Summary
And ConclusionsChapter 6; Conclusions; The Questions and the Theories; What is there in a Model? The Modeling of Underemployment; Human Capital Theory: Is it Supported?; Neostructuralism and Efficiency Wage Theories of Underemployment: The Findings; Deindustrialization and Underemployment; Summary and Perspectives; References; Index
