Meanings
- uncountableThe condition of being overemployed.
Labor-leisure models portray overemployment as an individual labor-market phenomenon, but it can also be viewed from a macroeconomic perspective.
2015, Morris Altman, Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics, →ISBN, page 4902 more examples
People who remain overemployed tolerate longer hours because they either expect their overemployment to be brief (such as temporary care-giving), or figure that part-time or reduced hours status involves too large a sacrifice in terms of benefit coverage or job status.
2003, John de Graaf, Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America, →ISBNIn sum, survey estimates of overemployment may be biased downward if a survey provokes certain implicit assumptions about the current income foregone, and the amount and dimensions of hours reduced and type of gains realized in time off.
2006, Jean-Yves Boulin, Michel Lallement, Decent Working Time: New Trends, New Issues, →ISBN, page 215
Origin
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