Definition of "overemployment"
overemployment
noun
uncountable
The condition of being overemployed.
Quotations
People who remain overemployed tolerate longer hours because they either expect their overemployment to be brief (such as temporary care-giving), or figure that part-time or reduced hours status involves too large a sacrifice in terms of benefit coverage or job status.
2003, John de Graaf, Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America
In sum, survey estimates of overemployment may be biased downward if a survey provokes certain implicit assumptions about the current income foregone, and the amount and dimensions of hours reduced and type of gains realized in time off.
2006, Jean-Yves Boulin, Michel Lallement, Decent Working Time: New Trends, New Issues, page 215
Labor-leisure models portray overemployment as an individual labor-market phenomenon, but it can also be viewed from a macroeconomic perspective.
2015, Morris Altman, Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics, page 490