Talk:Underemployment

message: Isn't underemployment also used in a different sense: somebody who is able to find work, but unable to find as much work as they are willing to do.  For example, I would be "underemployed" if I wanted to work a full-time job, but could only find a part-time job.  DanKeshet
This is exactly the way I know the term as well.  In fact, I was underemployed much of last year, when my "full time" job suddenly became part time, dropping from 40 hours per week to 30, with a corresponding drop in income.  This is a serious problem, since a partly-employed person can't file for unemployment benefits whether he or she stays or quits, and therefore may or may not be able to pay bills, etc. –radiojon 05:48, 2003 Sep 16 (UTC)
:My understanding is that all of the above definitions are correct and, in addition, a person who is over-educated for their job is also undemployed.  Such as someone with a college degree tending bar... not that I'm bitter. Tuf-Kat 06:00, Sep 16, 2003 (UTC)
Perhaps there should be an explanation for these three definitions. Who knows a real economist? David.Monniaux 08:08, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
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message: What about a graph?
This sector is as large as unemployment.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.235.167 (talk) 22:43, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Graph

message: OK, I have completed some work on this article to Wikify it (NPOV, categories, added some "See also" links, and some "External links"). I hope that it is better, now.  Tell me what you think?  I plan to come back and work on it some more, later. :) ProfessorPaul 18:42, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Is the article improved?

message: I (and my research team) will be working on this page over the next year to add inline citations and broaden the perspective to include social science and business research (right now it has primarily an economic perspective). It's such a timely topic so I'd like the entry to be as accurate and useful as possible. 
To best reflect current thinking on underemployment, I envision the page structure being revised to something like this:
(Brief Overview/Introduction)
* Types of Underemployment
# Time Related Underemployment (aka involuntary PT work, involuntary temp work, etc.)
# Skills Related Underemployment (aka, overqualification, overeducation, etc.)
# Underpayment
# Labor Hoarding
* Measuring Underemployment
* Consequences of Underemployment
I'm sure there's more to add, but this would be the meat of the article. Thoughts?
One of the first things I've done is removed the Economics sidebar, in part because the world map had nothing directly to do with underemployment, and so is confusing/misleading. It would be useful to eventually replace it with an appropriate graph of some kind.
Especially because this is my first attempt at contributing to Wikipedia, I am interested in any feedback at any point. Thanks!
DCMaynard 17:51 GMT, 02 Aug 2011  —Preceding undated comment added 17:53, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Will be working on this page

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