Willful versus woeful: Underemployment perceived volition and social class background among overqualified college graduates.

Autor/in	Steffy, Kody
Titel	Willful versus woeful: Underemployment perceived volition and social class background among overqualified college graduates. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Freiwillige versus unfreiwillige Unterbeschäftigung: Wahrgenommener Wille und soziale Herkunft überqualifizierter Hochschulabsolventen.
Quelle	In: Work and occupations, 44 (2017) 4, S. 467-511 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0730-8884; 1552-8464
DOI	10.1177/0730888417724565
Schlagwörter	Wahrnehmung; Zufriedenheit; Soziale Herkunft; Unterbeschäftigung; Arbeit; Unterwertige Beschäftigung; Überqualifikation; Freiwilligkeit; Hochschulabsolvent; USA
Abstract	"This article challenges a key assumption of underemployment scholarship: that the modal underemployed worker is involuntarily underemployed. Drawing from in-depth interviews, the author analyzes one particular type of underemployment: overqualification among college graduates. Findings demonstrate (a) that workers differ markedly in their perceptions of overqualification, (b) that these perceptions create distinct overqualification experiences, and (c) that these experiences vary by social class background. While some respondents report being overqualified at no choice of their own and are struggling to find better work, many others narrate their overqualification experience as voluntary. Among these graduates, who are likely to come from middle-class backgrounds, some understand overqualification as a temporary period of exploration; others think of it as potentially permanent and see themselves as opting out of the typical postcollege career path. Importantly, typical factors that have been analyzed as consequences of overqualification (job dissatisfaction and distress) covary with perceptions, such that the most negative outcomes tend to be among the disproportionately working-class graduates who view themselves as involuntarily underemployed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/1