malemployed
adjEtymology From mal- + employed.
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Employed in a job for which one is overqualified or overeducated, usually a job that does not pay as much as one wants or expects.
- Mal-employed college grads earn half of what their degree-appropriately employed peers do, a difference that adds up to tens of thousands of dollars per year, and millions over a lifetime.2013 October 2, Rana Foroohar, “Forget Unemployment, Time to Worry About ‘Mal-Employment’”, in Time:
- Related terms
- malemployment, unemployed, underemployed