>So is it safe that there is no measure of underemployment?
Underemployment is impossible to define. Is a violinist working as a cabdriver underemployed? Maybe, but what if s/he's a crappy violinist?
> Like all of these people who worked retail during the Christmas
>season and are out of work right now? My sister works for department
>store chain. She's technically employed by the store right now, but
>they don't give her any hours after the holidays, except for store
>inventory today.
If she didn't work, she'd be counted as unemployed.
Doug