Underemployment

Business & administration graduates form largest share of overqualified workers: MOM

This is due to high intake for such courses, says the ministry in a new study

Those aged below 30 account for the largest share of overqualification.

More workers in Singapore opt for jobs for which they are overqualified: MOM, NTUC studies

Workers take up jobs that do not fully use their qualifications for reasons such as stability, flexible hours

Underemployment – referring to people who cannot find full-time work that fully uses their skills and abilities – is harder to measure than unemployment, and often not systematically tracked.

As unemployment improves, focus on underemployment as well

THE job market ended 2022 with a flourish in many markets – Singapore, for example, ended the year with a record 227,800 more workers employed, surpassing the pre-pandemic 2019 numbers by about 3 per ...