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The incidence of visible underemployment: Evidence for Trinidad and Tobago

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dc.creator Görg, Holger
dc.creator Strobl, Eric
dc.date 2001
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:14:27Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:14:27Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2592
dc.identifier ppn:737909625
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/2592
dc.description This paper presents an empirical analysis of the incidence of visible underemployment in Trinidad and Tobago. Visible underemployment consists of workers who work less than the normal duration of working hours but are willing and available to work more. We find that compared to other groups of the labour force the visibly underemployed tend to be less educated and are more likely to work in the private sector. We also find that their revealed behaviour is consistent with their desire for more hours. Relative to the jobs of the visibly underemployed, full-time jobs would, in addition to providing more hours, be more attractive because of greater employment stability and higher returns to job specific attributes, although the personal characteristics of the visibly underemployed are better rewarded in their own jobs. Only about 50 per cent of the visibly underemployed are able to find full-time employment within three months and little except firm size helps predict who will.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Centre for Research in Economic Development and Internat. Trade, Univ. of Nottingham Nottingham
dc.relation CREDIT Research Paper 01/10
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Kurzarbeit
dc.subject Qualifikation
dc.subject Beschäftigung
dc.subject Trinidad und Tobago
dc.title The incidence of visible underemployment: Evidence for Trinidad and Tobago
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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