SamuelRJankis comments on Young people are struggling to find work. Older people saying ‘try harder’ isn’t helping

Young people are struggling to find work. Older people saying ‘try harder’ isn’t helping (www.cbc.ca)

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[–] SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I don't see it mentioned much or in the article but the data is actually probably even worse than it looks.

It counts a lot people working gig jobs as being employed or even boasted as self employed sometimes. The quality of those jobs is substantially lower than more traditional jobs.

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[–] SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

A term for that is underemployment

Statistics Canada collects data about this under the category of "Supplementary unemployment rate": https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410007801

Their categories of underemployment include:

discouraged searchers
waiting group (recall, replies, long-term future starts)
involuntary part-timers
discouraged searchers, waiting group, portion of involuntary part-timers

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