Underemployment

For the television series, see Underemployed (TV series) Underemployment is the underuse of a worker because a job does not use the worker's skills, is part-time, or leaves the worker idle. Examples include holding a part-time job despite desiring full-time work, and overqualification, in which the employee has education, experience, or skills beyond the requirements of the job.Underemployment has been studied from a variety of perspectives, including economics, management, psychology, and sociology. In economics, for example, the term underemployment has three different distinct meanings and applications. All of the meanings involve a situation in which a person is working, unlike …

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UNDP: United Nations Development Programme · 11 April 2024 English

The contraction of household incomes since the onset of the pandemic and the political crisis shows no sign of recovery. Respondents of the People’s Pulse Survey 2023 (PPS), conducted between …

employment opportunities, reduced working hours (underemployment), and an increased prevalence of casual or


RAND Corporation · 10 April 2024 English

RAND's research and analysis address issues that affect families and communities around the world — such issues as health, education, national security, and public safety. RAND's 2023 Annual Report describes …

military moves with spousal unemployment, underemployment, and loss of earnings. Based in part on that


U4: U4 Anti-corruption Resources Centre · 9 April 2024 English

therefore imperative to prevent forms of corruption and financial mismanagement that undermine the In LMICs, losses to corruption and mismanagement effectiveness of social protection, as part of a wider are …

for individuals who are no longer able to underemployment, as well as subsistence farming. work due to


DIIS: Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier · 8 April 2024 English

Migration is an integral part of local livelihoods in many places of Africa. Migrants move to provide for their families, for education, religious purposes, security, to establish a better future, …

be a shared political ambition, as un- and underemployment continues to affect many (young) Africans.


World Bank Group · 1 April 2024 English

Ratings for the Reintegration of Ex-combatants Project for Central African Republic were as follows: outcomes were moderately satisfactory, the Bank performance was satisfactory, and the monitoring and evaluation quality was …

Assessment (RRA) recommendations, addressing youth underemployment and mitigating tensions between displaced


World Bank Group · 29 March 2024 English

The fiscal deficit continues to fall, consistent with the government's fiscal consolidation agenda. Meanwhile, high prices pose a key short-term risk to inflation and a shift towards a more accomodative …

but job quality improved. Unemployment and underemployment rates rose to 4.5 percent (3.1 percent in Unemployment rate 5.4 4.3 4.6 3.6 3.1 4.5 Underemployment rate 14.2 12.3 12.8 11.8 11.9 13.9 Sentiments


Australian Council of Trade Unions · 28 March 2024 English

Profit growth has been solid and broad-based in the non-mining sector and across both large and small businesses, even in the face of a slowing economy. [...] Given the nil …

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Urban Institute · 28 March 2024 English

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the Partnering for Vaccine Equity (P4VE) program in 2020 to address racial and ethnic disparities in adult immunization rates, particularly for COVID-19 …

enter construction following unemployment or underemployment because of the COVID-19 pandemic. NICE has


FPRI: Foreign Policy Research Institute · 27 March 2024 English

Bottom Line Under the concept of “top-level design,” President Xi Jinping has repurposed institutions to eliminate problems caused by local discretion such as corruption and policy implementation gaps. Increasing centralization …

college degrees face a future of unemployment/underemployment. This potential future for China also creates


e61 Institute · 27 March 2024 English

Overall, we find that changes in the definition of unemployment – especially about the intensity of job search – have a non-trivial effect on the level of unemployment (particularly for …

this idea is well captured by hours based underemployment measures (Bishop et al., 2014) 1 In a similar


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