| 单词 | underemployment |
| 释义 | underemployment noun[C] uk/ˌʌndərɪmˈplɔɪmənt/usasituationin which someone or something is not used as much as they should be: Underemployment ofskillsis one of thebiggestconcernsamongrecentgraduates. thefactof not having enoughworkto do, onlyworkingparttime, or of having ajobthat does not use allyourskills: Unemployment and underemployment arecloseto 50% in Nicaragua. Examplesofunderemploymentunderemployment Liberian ex-combatants are generally seen as uprooted urban youths with a history of unemployment,underemploymentand idleness. From theCambridge English Corpus It is unreasonable to believe that agriculture will return to hand labor to reduce unemployment orunderemployment. From theCambridge English Corpus For example, consider the economy in which the market equilibrium leads to anunderemploymentwhen the private agents rationally anticipate the inflation rate. From theCambridge English Corpus Production was interrupted in 70 per cent of industrial plants, causing significant unemployment andunderemployment. From theCambridge English Corpus There was no point in hiring outside labour when theunderemploymentof certain members of the family was apparent. From theCambridge English Corpus Financial exploitation was seen as the consequence of poor economic conditions that resulted in unemployment orunderemployment. From theCambridge English Corpus Unskilled manual work is an alternative to farming, butunderemploymentis common. From theCambridge English Corpus This outcome is even more likely once we allow for the possibility ofunderemployment. From theCambridge English Corpus Empirically, the market for unskilled labor has frequently been characterized by considerable unemployment andunderemployment. From theCambridge English Corpus The author found delayed entry into the workforce andunderemploymentresulted in lifetime earnings that were $275,000 (1970 dollars) below that for hearing persons. From theCambridge English Corpus This population increase will obviously strain the resources of the island where unemployment, orunderemployment, is common and where many schools are already grossly overcrowded. From theCambridge English Corpus A large part of the problem was seen to be the high levels of un- orunderemployment. From theCambridge English Corpus Under such rigidities, unforecasted negative demand shocks createunderemploymentof resources and, it was thought, government can successfully fight such underemployment by adequate demand stimulation (and conversely for positive shocks). From theCambridge English Corpus Likewise, labour market policies in almost every welfare state are (at least partly) judged by how well they manage to avoid involuntaryunderemployment, most notably unemployment. From theCambridge English Corpus The fact that not all potential labourers were employed continuously, because of seasonal unemployment orunderemployment, will be left aside here because of lack of information on this point. From theCambridge English Corpus 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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