Underemployment rate eased slightly to 19.2% in April 2013 from 19.3% a year earlier. This figure corresponds to 7.25 million underemployed persons in 2013 or a decline of 60,000 from 7.31 million in 2012. As defined, underemployed persons are employed persons who want additional hours of work in their present jobs, or to have additional jobs, or new jobs with longer working hours (BLES 2011).>>read complete document
