Underemployment

Underemployment

An economic concept where a skilled person can only find employment in jobs that do not utilize their skills, and so their actual income is considerably lower than what they theoretically could earn with the skills they possess. An example of this would be a doctor working as a taxi driver – while she does have a job, it pays a lot less than the skills she has theoretically should be worth.

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