underemployment

[uhn-der-em-ploi-muhnt]

noun

1. inadequate or insufficient paid work.

2. failure to make adequate or expected use of something.

Example Sentences

Among some Indigenous Americans, we see much of the same evidence as in modern American men: underachievement, underemployment, alcoholism, drug addiction, despair, suicide.

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But that data obscures the conditions that come with immigrating to the United States in the first place: The U.S. immigration system mostly enables highly skilled African workers to emigrate to the country, and if you dig into that MPI study, it shows that Black immigrants still face underemployment and lower wages than American-born Black people.

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With inequality, joblessness and underemployment soaring, they’ve become central themes of the election.

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Mass unemployment and underemployment have always been intractable problems in India, so parties inevitably fall back on the promises of handouts, said Mody, the Princeton economist.

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Underemployment, self-employment an the amount of informal workers also rose between 2019-2023, according to the World Bank.

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