overemployment
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "In 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."
- "Labor-leisure models portray overemployment as an individual labor-market phenomenon, but it can also be viewed from a macroeconomic perspective."
Etymology
From over- + employment.