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Behind stable jobs data, China grapples with hidden unemployment
The underemployment rate has jumped to more than 5% from near zero in 2010: professor
Published Mon, Aug 22, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Beijing
CRACKS are starting to show in China's labour market as struggling industrial firms leave millions of workers in flux.
While official jobless numbers haven't budged, the underemployment rate has jumped to more than 5 per cent from near zero in 2010, according to Bai Peiwei, an economics professor at Xiamen University.
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