{"id":25846,"date":"2010-08-14T10:01:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T15:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=25846"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:08:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T09:08:51","slug":"the-recession-re-employment-and-job-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/08\/14\/the-recession-re-employment-and-job-satisfaction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Recession, Re-Employment, and Job Satisfaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. unemployment numbers only begin to describe how U.S. workers have suffered in this recession.\u00a0 The Pew Research Center<\/a> has some additional data on this experience.<\/p>\n

Twenty-six percent of full-time workers who became re-employed currently only work part-time.\u00a0 Thirteen percent moved from part-time to full time work.\u00a0 So, among the employed, there are 13 percent fewer full-time workers.<\/p>\n

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Americans who lost their jobs and became re-employed during this recession say that they’re making about the same, that the benefits are about equal, and many like their new job better:<\/p>\n

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Still, the re-employed are more likely than the still-employed to say that they are overqualified for their current job:<\/p>\n

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People that moved from full- to part-time work are significantly less likely to be satisfied with their new position:<\/p>\n

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Forty-seven percent of part-time workers would like a full-time job:<\/p>\n

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The term “underemployed” refers to this 47 percent of the population.\u00a0\u00a0 Men, young people, the less educated, lower income, and non-whites are more likely to be underemployed:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. unemployment numbers only begin to describe how U.S. workers have suffered in this recession.\u00a0 The Pew Research Center has some additional data on this experience. Twenty-six percent of full-time workers who became re-employed currently only work part-time.\u00a0 Thirteen percent moved from part-time to full time work.\u00a0 So, among the employed, there are 13 percent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,29,36,12498,55,285,1760,1754,1757,76],"class_list":["post-25846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-class","tag-economics","tag-economics-great-recession","tag-gender","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25846"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59851,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25846\/revisions\/59851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}