Spector, Susanne Ek - In: IZA World of Labor (2022)
A considerable share of the labor force consists of underemployed part-time workers: employed workers who, for various … reasons, are unable to work as much as they would like to. Offering unemployment benefits to part-time unemployed workers is … controversial. On the one hand, such benefits can strengthen incentives to take a part-time job rather than remain fully unemployed …