underemployed

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Increasing the personal allowance no longer makes much difference to the poor and underemployed: the disadvantaged in society.

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Quick take

Employed in a job that offers fewer work hours than desired.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of underemployed gathered in one view.

adjective

Employed in a job that offers fewer work hours than desired.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for underemployed.

adjective

Employed in a job that offers fewer work hours than desired.

Example sentences

Increasing the personal allowance no longer makes much difference to the poor and underemployed: the disadvantaged in society.

Then perhaps society later deems it good to have a program that takes the underemployed and increases their skill levels.

It's coming from an urge to call bullshit on underemployment and to vent frustrations about systematic mistreatment of underemployed workers.

If you count underemployed, discouraged workers and the U-2 figure then we're at about 18% unemployment right now.

The number of people signing up to drive tells us a lot about the number of unemployed / underemployed individuals who have a car.

Speaking as someone who has been underemployed for years, I can safely say that this advice is a load of crap.

I would hardly qualify as a bored, underemployed web developer, but I do believe there's a decent way to go about things.

Our target candidate is in the workforce but underemployed.

(In fact, it appears to be something of a pastime among bored, underemployed web developers, cf.

The tiny microscopic subset of the population who get past that, are profoundly underemployed and will not have much of an issue with the raw brain horsepower requirement.

However they're likely (temporarily?) unemployed or underemployed.

Further how do we count people who are underemployed?

Quote examples

In other words there isn't an "automation fund" which diverts wealth to the underemployed and those whose jobs have become redundant an unnecessary.

There are actually several startups solving "go park somewhere, I don't care where" problem using our underemployed labor pool instead of robots.

(I wasn't as clear as I might have been...it's early yet.) I was preempting a response that I often hear when this debate comes up, which is that "the market" will fix the problem of underemployed PhDs.

Yet another metaphorical example of how the top tier of "business leaders" and decision makers pander to the top tier of the richest individuals ("investors") and have absolutely no disincentive to continually gutting the middle class and young generation of US Citizen workers who are ridiculously underemployed at this time.