SOCIOL 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: 5 Usa, Underemployment, Field Experiment
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Opens more doors to enter labor market. Should you take a job beneath your skill level. Prevalence of these positions and determinants of employers" use of these types of employment relationships. Workers" material and subjective experiences in these positions. Nonstandard and mismatched employment can serve as a stepping stone to better jobs down the road and buffer workers against scars of unemployment. 3 research questions: what are consequences of having a history of nonstandard or mismatched employment for workers future labor market oppty, given gendered nature of employment positions - particularly part-time and temporary employment. Empirical grounding, theoretical grounding, data and methods: why experiments, study 1 field experiment / audit study, study 2 (survey) Huge jump in part time and over time. Workers pushed into jobs well below their skill level. Obtaining info about quality of job applicant from application materials challenging. Employers utilize observable signals fro app materials to make inferences about unobservable quality of the worker.
