Randa Jama, a wheelchair attendant at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, would be referred to as a “voluntary” part-time worker in the jobs data produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). She only works weekends,http://companionpetz.com.au/layout-styles.php?categories/8_1294.html, spending weekdays caring for her children,http://lasvegaspizzeria.com/wp-title.php?premier-arsenal-c-4_6.html, in large part because she couldn’t afford a babysitter without much better hours and pay.
Though Jama says she would prefer to be working full-time,http://michaelzeki.com/wp-feed.php?premier-league/, that information doesn’t filter through to the nation’s monthly employment report. The same goes for many other workers — almost a million, mainly women, one advocacy group estimates — who can’t work the full-time hours they want to, and aren’t classed alongside other unemployed or underemployed people in official data.
The distinction comes from a question, asked as part of the BLS population survey, about underemployment caused by “economic” or “non-economic reasons.” It classes factors like child care as non-economic reasons people aren’t working more hours - and commonly refers to these workers as “voluntarily” part time.
“The number of people working part time for economic reasons is a closely watched economic indicator,” reads the interviewer’s manual for the survey, as “a measure of underemployment and of the inability of the nation’s economy to generate the types of jobs desired.”
Those working part-time for “non-economic reasons” (sometimes referred to as “voluntarily” part-time) are not watched the same way,http://www.turadioshalom.com/magico/wp-searches.php?Acheter-maillot-juventus-2015-BUFFON-exterieur.html.
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Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research,http://nuvomedia.dk/wp-xml.php?product/barcelona-fodbold-4564.html, argues that while the terminology “economic” and “non-economic” is correct,http://www.welshdiving.co.uk/wp-pass.php?replica-longines-conquest-classic-watches-outlet.html, describing workers in need of child care as “voluntarily” part time is misleading.
“What we’re trying to measure is the strength of the economy,” Baker told BuzzFeed News. “For that,http://limgclub.com/vars.php?647-Maajoukkueet-Peliasu/656-Chile-Peliasu, they’re asking the right question: ‘If the economy were stronger, would these people have jobs?’ But if the economy were stronger and these women still didn’t have child care,https://www.mywebdoctor.co.uk/wp-content.php?longines/, they still wouldn’t be working full-time.”
Baker said the unemployment numbers also don’t account for women who would like to be working full- or part-time,http://www.exclusiveworlds.co.uk/wp-app.php?mens-replica-watches-collection/tag-heuer-carrera-17-r2-white-dial-brown-leather-quartz-mens-watch.html, but aren’t actively looking for work because they can’t afford child care. Similarly, workers who are part-time because of transportation issues — such as an inability to get to and from jobs in the suburbs — would be counted as “voluntarily” part time for “non-economic reasons,” despite wanting full employment.
by the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), a liberal advocacy group,http://neopianroyalty.com/wp-pass.php?sport-business/etoo-drogba-les-10-footballeurs-africains-les-mieux-payes-107003, estimated about a million women want to work full-time but can’t due to these “voluntary” reasons.
“In theory the economy could be robust enough where these women could have their needs met,” said Aditi Sen, a CPD researcher who co-authored the study. Policymakers may put less focus on full employment for women, she argued, if the official statistics don’t include their desire for full time work.相关的主题文章：


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