Underemployment rose sharply over recession
February 16, 2010 by admin
Filed under Career News and Advice
Underemployment rose sharply during the recession, Government figures have
shown, in statistics that take the gloss off a relatively robust performance
from the UK labour market during the economic downturn.
By James Hall and Angela Monaghan
Published: 9:44PM GMT 16 Feb 2010
Almost three million people were not working as many hours as they would have
liked to in the third quarter of 2009, a sharp jump from the 2.1m over the
same period two years ago, according to figures published on Tuesday by the
Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The main driver of the jump in underemployment – to 2.8m people – was a sharp
rise in the number of part-time workers who could not find a full-time …
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