The number of temporary workers and people in underemployment has started rising.

But the mystery clears up if you look at the underemployment rate.

Economic growth is needed to keep the unemployment and underemployment rates from rising.

The difference relates to how unemployment and underemployment statistics are calculated.

If it can add more full time workers, that underemployment rate will fall.

But underemployment does not explain all of the change in wages.

This year's numbers were an improvement but underemployment is still at high levels.

GDP growth is low, underemployment remains elevated, and inflation is weak.

Five per cent unemployment used to mean low underemployment too.

It meant that reducing unemployment would in turn reduce underemployment.

The Reserve Bank is on a mission to help Australian's hit hard by underemployment.

All economies exhibit underemployment, but in the past it was not a big issue.

It is why the relationship between wages is now closer to the underemployment rate.

Layoffs and underemployment are issues that can impact cash flow.

Australia's economy has a particular vulnerability that matters right now -high rates of underemployment.

Levels of underemployment are higher; only 17 percent of Punjab's population earns a regular wage.