| 词汇 | underemployment |
| 释义 | underemployment noun[ C ] uk /ˌʌndərɪmˈplɔɪmənt/us a situation in which someone or something is not used as much as they should be: Underemployment of skills is one of the biggest concerns among recent graduates. the fact of not having enough work to do, only working part time, or of having a job that does not use all your skills: Unemployment and underemployment are close to 50% in Nicaragua. Examples of underemploymentunderemployment Liberian ex-combatants are generally seen as uprooted urban youths with a history of unemployment, underemployment and idleness. It is unreasonable to believe that agriculture will return to hand labor to reduce unemployment or underemployment. For example, consider the economy in which the market equilibrium leads to an underemployment when the private agents rationally anticipate the inflation rate. Production was interrupted in 70 per cent of industrial plants, causing significant unemployment and underemployment. There was no point in hiring outside labour when the underemployment of certain members of the family was apparent. Financial exploitation was seen as the consequence of poor economic conditions that resulted in unemployment or underemployment. Unskilled manual work is an alternative to farming, but underemployment is common. This outcome is even more likely once we allow for the possibility of underemployment. Empirically, the market for unskilled labor has frequently been characterized by considerable unemployment and underemployment. The author found delayed entry into the workforce and underemployment resulted in lifetime earnings that were $275,000 (1970 dollars) below that for hearing persons. This population increase will obviously strain the resources of the island where unemployment, or underemployment, is common and where many schools are already grossly overcrowded. A large part of the problem was seen to be the high levels of un- or underemployment. Under such rigidities, unforecasted negative demand shocks create underemployment of resources and, it was thought, government can successfully fight such underemployment by adequate demand stimulation (and conversely for positive shocks). Likewise, labour market policies in almost every welfare state are (at least partly) judged by how well they manage to avoid involuntary underemployment, most notably unemployment. The fact that not all potential labourers were employed continuously, because of seasonal unemployment or underemployment, will be left aside here because of lack of information on this point. See all examples of underemployment These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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