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be underemployed
adjective
Employed in a job that offers one fewer work hours than one wishes.
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"It's expensive to be underemployed in America," explains Mr Griswold.
Will we need a redistribution of hours away from highly skilled people who work lots of overtime towards less skilled people who might be underemployed?
Many readers agreed it's better to be "underemployed" within your target industry, so at least you can make contacts or find an internal job vacancy.
Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) workers are a third more likely than white workers to be underemployed with fewer hours of employment than they would like, according to the Trades Union Congress.
Specifically, five million Americans were found to be "underemployed," where they were working less than 30 hours per week.
In some regions, young people are nearly three times as likely as adults to be unemployed; they are also more likely than older workers to be underemployed or work in the informal labour market, in poor quality jobs that require low levels of skills and offer limited socio-economic security, training opportunities, and working conditions (International Labour Organization 2012).
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Millions more are underemployed.
Too many Greeks are underemployed.
Like many Americans today, I am underemployed.
Britons lack vocational skills and are underemployed.
Economists estimate that another 30% of the workforce is underemployed.
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