I don’t see it mentioned much or in the article but the data is actually probably even worse than it looks.
It counts a lot people working gig jobs as being employed or even boasted as self employed sometimes. The quality of those jobs is substantially lower than more traditional jobs.
I don’t see it mentioned much or in the article but the data is actually probably even worse than it looks.
It counts a lot people working gig jobs as being employed or even boasted as self employed sometimes. The quality of those jobs is substantially lower than more traditional jobs.
A term for that is underemployment
Statistics Canada collects data about this under the category of “Supplementary unemployment rate”: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410007801
Their categories of underemployment include: