get_underemployment {epidata}

Retreive the share of the labor force that is "underemployed"

Description

Underemployment is the share of the labor force that either 1) is unemployed, 2) is working part time but wants and is available to work full time (an "involuntary" part timer), or 3) wants and is available to work and has looked for work in the last year but has given up actively seeking work in the last four weeks ("marginally attached" worker).

Usage

get_underemployment(by = NULL)

Arguments

by

NULL or character string with any combination of g (Gender), r (Race), a (Age), e (Education). i.e. if you want to retrieve unemployment data by gender, race and education, you would set this parameter to "gre".

Value

tbl_df with data filtered by the selected criteria.

References

Economic Policy Institute Data Library

Examples

get_underemployment()

get_underemployment("r")

get_underemployment("grae")