Suppose a student graduates from college with a civil engineering degree and is now employed to grade papers,

answer the phone, and make copies-tasks that are below the graduate's capabilities. The graduate can best be

classified as

A discouraged worker.

Structurally unemployed.

Phantom unemployed.

Underemployed.

The correct answer is Underemployed.

Explanation:

Underemployment has among its meanings, the following:

The employment of workers with high skill levels, in those jobs where such skills are not required, such as the case of a trained doctor, who must also work as a taxi driver.

Involuntary part-time of workers: In this case the workers who could and in any case want to start a full-time job, although they can only find part-time work. By analogy, the term is also used in regional planning to describe regions where economic activity rates are unusually low, due to lack of employment opportunities, training opportunities, or due to lack of services such as transportation, childcare, etc. Excessive personnel or hidden unemployment: this is the practice that occurs when companies or economy employ workers who are not fully employed. For example, workers who are not currently used to produce goods or services due to legal or social restrictions, or because the work is highly seasonal.