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The Well-being of the Overemployed and the Underemployed and the Rise in Depression in the UK

David Nevin Fraser BellDavid G. Blanchflower

出版	National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tHx-0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

In this paper we build on our earlier work on underemployment using data from the UK. In particular, we explore their well-being based on hours preferences rather than on involuntary part-time work used in the prior literature. We make use of five main measures of well-being: happiness; life satisfaction; whether life is worthwhile; anxiety and depression. The underemployed have higher levels of well-being than the unemployed and disabled but lower levels than any other group of workers, full or part-time. The more that actual hours differ from preferred hours the lower is a worker's well-being. This is true for those who say they want more hours (the underemployed) and those who say they want less (the over employed).