Reconceptualising labour utilisation and underutilisation with new ‘full-time equivalent’ employment and unemployment rates

Abstract Time-related underemployment (wanting to work more hours) has become an entrenched feature of a number of mature economies since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, recent short-run post-COVID labour shortages notwithstanding. Employment and unemployment rates are thus increasingly inadequ...

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Published in:	Journal for Labour Market Research
Main Authors:	Donald Houston, Colin Lindsay
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	SpringerOpen 2025-03-01
Subjects:	Labour utilisation Labour underutilisation Unemployment Underemployment Gender Youth unemployment
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12651-025-00396-z