The Consequences of Underemployment for the Underemployed

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What is the relationship between long working hours, over-employment, under-employment and the subjective well-being of workers? Longitudinal evidence from the UK (2015, methodology): “Studies based on cross-sectional data (e.g. Wilkins, 2007) or longitudinal data that do not utilize within-person analysis (e.g. Friedland and Price, 2003) may be biased by failure to account for time invariant individual characteristics.”
Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers? (2012, methodology): “Using cross-sectional Australian data from the 2001 Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, Wilkins (2007) examines the outcomes of underemployment only, finding a negative association with well-being and other outcomes.”
“I Have a Job, But . . .”: A Review of Underemployment (2011, background): “Hours underemployment, or involuntary part-time work, represents workers who are currently working less than full-time but who have a desire to work more hours (e.g., Creed & Moore, 2006; Wilkins, 2007).”
Working Time Mismatch and Subjective Well-being (2009, unknown): “Those studies that have (e.g., Dooley et al. 2000; Dooley and Prause 1998; Manning and Petrongolo 2004; Prause and Dooley 1997; Wilkins 2007) typically find that adverse”