abstract: 'Despite some attention devoted to part-time employment with insufficient

  or inadequate work hours, research is still too limited on how the

  burden of underemployment is distributed disproportionately on

  vulnerable workers and its implications for financial well-being and

  work-family balance. Furthermore, scarce research considers the role of

  control over work hours in the context of worker underemployment. Using

  unique data and measures constructed from a nationally representative

  survey of the 2006 and 2016 US General Social Survey, we find that being

  part-time underemployed is concentrated toward workers who are minority,

  lower income, and employed in certain service occupations. Multivariate

  analysis reveals that, relative to both part-time workers satisfied with

  their hours and to full-time workers, the part-time underemployed endure

  significantly greater risks of facing lower financial status and

  financial dis-satisfaction. Part-time underemployed workers also

  experience more frequent work-to-family conflict, compared to other

  part-time workers, and no less than otherwise comparable full-time

  workers. Their elevated work-family conflict is intensified when having

  limited control over their work hours. We derive implications of these

  findings for preventative public policies that would help curb both the

  extent and the harms of underemployment, recently rendered even more

  necessary by its rise during the 2020 recession.'
affiliation: 'Kim, J (Corresponding Author), Univ South Carolina, Coll Social Work,
  1512 Pendleton St, Columbia, SC 29208 USA.

  Kim, Jaeseung, Univ South Carolina, Coll Social Work, 1512 Pendleton St, Columbia,
  SC 29208 USA.

  Golden, Lonnie, Penn State Univ, Econ \& Lab Employment Relat, Abington, PA USA.'
author: Kim, Jaeseung and Golden, Lonnie
author-email: jaeseung@mailbox.sc.edu
author_list:
- family: Kim
  given: Jaeseung
- family: Golden
  given: Lonnie
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/13668803.2021.1985433
earlyaccessdate: OCT 2021
eissn: 1469-3615
files: []
issn: 1366-8803
journal: COMMUNITY WORK \& FAMILY
keywords: 'Underemployment; involuntary part-time; part-time employment;

  work-family conflict; financial well-being; control over work hours'
keywords-plus: 'WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT; FLEXIBLE WORK; GENDER SEGREGATION; SCHEDULE

  CONTROL; EMPLOYMENT; QUALITY; ASSOCIATIONS; HEALTH; JOB; ORGANIZATION'
language: English
month: JAN 1
number: 1, SI
number-of-cited-references: '86'
pages: 84-111
papis_id: df2077c41e520ac3d902699e41a9ed0d
ref: Kim2022inadequacyinequality
times-cited: '2'
title: 'Inadequacy inequality: the distribution and consequences of part-time underemployment
  in the US'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000704278000001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '9'
volume: '25'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2022'