Underemployment is a condition in which workers are employed in less than full-time or regular jobs or insufficient jobs for their training or economic needs. Also, underemployment is a worker's underuse because a job does not use the skills of the worker, i.e. part-time, or leaves the worker idle.
<em>Underemployment is a measure of employment and labor utilization in the economy that looks at how well the labor force is being used in terms of skills, experience, and availability to work. People who are classified as underemployed include workers who are highly skilled but working in low-paying or low-skill jobs and part-time workers who would prefer to be full-time. This is different from unemployment in that the person is working but not at their full capability.........</em>