Affiliations: [a] Service de la Recherche en Education, Geneva, Switzerland. E-mail: giorgina@mclink.it | [b] ISTAT (Statistics Italy), via Ravà 150, Rome, Italy. Tel.: +39646734560; E-mail: pintaldi@istat.it
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Note: [1] The article is a revised version of a paper presented at the joint UNECE/ILO/Eurostat Seminar on the Quality of Work, Geneva, 11–13 May, 2005 (Working Paper No. 15).
Abstract: Within the quality of the work framework a particularly important aspect is underemployment, since it identifies a portion of persons employed inadequately, below their availability and skills, affecting their capacities and well-being. Two main forms of underemployment can be distinguished: a) time related underemployment, which can be measured directly and reflects insufficiency in the volume of work; b) misallocation of labour resources, in particular the mismatch of occupation and education. The aim of this paper is to present a new approach in the measurement of underemployment, showing what information is available from the Italian labour force survey, and what other information is needed in order to reach a better understanding of the multiple facets and to produce a better measure of underemployment, especially concerning skill-related and other forms ,such as income-related underemployment.
Keywords: Time-related underemployment, inadequate employment situations, quality of work, decent work
