LatinNews Daily - 08 October 2020

* According to a new study presented by experts from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (Unah) national public university, there has been a significant rise in underemployment in Honduras over the past decade. The International Labour Organization (ILO) defines underemployment as “underutilisation of the productive capacity of the employed population, including those which arise from a deficient national or local economic system”. The Unah study which was carried out by the university's demographic observatory (ODU) and masters programme in demography, cites as characteristics of underemployment insufficient hours where the work is occasional or shift work with low salaries and poor conditions. In 2009, according to the study, 65% of the economically active population said that they did not have employment-related problems, a percentage which dropped to 43% in 2019, which the researchers claim reflects an increase in underemployment. One of the researchers, Alejandro Melgar, said that this rise in underemployment was one of the factors driving people to migrate to the US, in search of better employment prospects.

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