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Underemployment Levels and Trends: Time, skills, and wages
In this first project report we address key questions around how we can measure underemployment and track it over time. The report examines trends in the levels of various forms of underemployment since 2006.
Underemployed: the challenge of being between a rock and a hard place
This week, 2-8th of October, is Challenge Poverty Week in Scotland. At a time when unemployment rates are said to be the lowest in “nearly 50 years” , poverty in Scotland is an increasing reality for too many.
The Underemployment Project starts recruiting participants!
How much underemployment is there, how fast is it growing and where? Who are the underemployed? What causes their underemployment? What are its effects? What are the lived experiences of underemployed workers?