underemployment

Noun

Meaning

underemployment (uncountable)

The condition of being underemployed.

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Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high. Marc Andreessen

With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair. Iain Duncan Smith

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. Julian Bond

About 68% of Zambians live below the recognised national poverty line, citation with rural poverty rates standing at about 78% citation and urban rates at about 53%. citation Unemployment and underemployment in urban areas are serious problems. Source: Internet

Bremmer added that the high rate of joblessness and underemployment in Nigeria helps to "explain why social unrest there right now is out of control." Source: Internet

Mean wages were $0.85 per man-hour in 2009 and this rate represented underemployment when compared to effective market pay. Source: Internet

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