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under-emˈployment
[under-1 10 b.]
Insufficient use of resources; spec. a situation in which the number of the unemployed exceeds the number of job vacancies, producing a labour surplus.
1909S. & B. Webb Public Organization of Labour Market (Minority Rep. Poor Law Commission ii) iv. 185 The evil of Under-employment is shown in its most common form in the great class of Casual Labourers. 1926Galsworthy Silver Spoon ii. i. 112 To free the country from..under-employment, and over-population. 1944A. L. Rowse Eng. Spirit xxxii. 225 Carlyle [in Past & Present]..went on to point to the dilemma of over⁓production and under-employment which is a recurrent trouble of laissez-faire capitalism. 1961Times 1 Dec. 13/6 This kind of underemployment is to be seen in many sectors of the economy. 1979Dædalus Spring 90 Under⁓employment does exist, though, and..there are strategies to pay certain categories of women to take time off or to leave the labor market early. |