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hidden unemployment

 
 
noun [U] ECONOMICS

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› the number of people who do not have work but who are not counted in government reports, for example, people who have stopped looking for a job and people who work less than they want to: Hidden employment means a real unemployment rate of nearly 19%.
(Definition of hidden unemployment noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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