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- noun The condition of being
underemployed .
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Examples
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A measure that includes all three groups -- discouraged workers, unemployed workers and part-time workers -- is called the underemployment rate.
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A measure that includes all three groups - discouraged workers, unemployed workers and part-time workers - is called the underemployment rate.
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Altogether these 21 million Americans comprise what is sometimes called the underemployment rate, which hit 13.5 percent in December.
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Click to read. the economy continues to create jobs?? the government continues to create jobs … most temporary, census, irs. in the real world, underemployment is high, home values flat, and this moron is passing legislation that will ensure more of the same. he continues his foreign policy of embarrassing this country to no ends …. on the world stage he is the village idiot and commands zero respect. look at the way these other leaders make him look like the idiot he is. which make all of you even bigger idiots for cheering him on.
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Factoring in those wishing to work more hours and those who have given up looking for work - the so-called underemployment rate is 15.9 percent.
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Currently, U.S. unemployment stands at 9.1% although so-called underemployment is much higher.
Barton Biggs: U.S. Needs a Massive Public Works Program Simon Constable 2011
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The so-called underemployment rate, which includes part-time workers who would like to work full-time, also fell to 16.2% from 16.5%.
When 9% Is a Relief 2011
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The picture becomes more vivid still using a broader Labor Department measure known as underemployment, which counts jobless people along with those who are working part-time for lack of full-time work, or who have given up looking for work but are eager for jobs.
Divided States of America: Black America Suffers Depression-Like Joblessness Peter S. Goodman 2011
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Factoring in those wishing to work more hours and those who have given up looking for work - the so-called underemployment rate is 15.9 percent.
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Factoring in those wishing to work more hours and those who have given up looking for work - the so-called underemployment rate is 15.9 percent.
JeanSC commented on the word underemployment
My definition is: "an involuntary negative output gap for an individual." It includes all the listed types of underemployment, but leaves "underpaid" separate. "Output gap" and "negative output gap" are already established economics terms.
July 16, 2009