underemployed | underemployed person

short-time working [ underemployment | underemployment(UNBIS) ]

underemployment rate

structural underemployment

Federal Act of 29 April 1998 on Agriculture | Agriculture Act [ AgricA ]

means of agricultural production [ agricultural engineering | agricultural infrastructure | agricultural technology | Agricultural engineering | [http ...]

agricultural policy [ agricultural development | agricultural planning | farming policy | farm policy | agricultural management(UNBIS) | agricultural planning(UNBIS) ]

Economic output and income per labour unit, although steadily improving, remain very low, largely due to the fact that Portuguese agricultural labour is poorly equipped with land and capital and because there is serious underlying underemployment in the sector.

* * * * The Third Periodic Report also includes a number of new or more detailed analyses - a comparison between Community regional disparities and those in the United States; - an updated and extended version of the synthetic index used to rank the regions on the basis of the severity of their social and economic problems; - regional differences in labour costs; - an analysis of regional migration and its trend; - infrastructure expenditure and endowment in the regions; - different types of region (regions lagging behind, declining industrial regions, agricultural regions, frontier regions, urban problem regions, peripheral regions and islands); - underemployment, particul ...[+++]arly in agriculture; - forward-looking analysis of long-term population trends, medium-term labour force trends and job requirements in the regions; - the impact on the regions of expenditure under the European Social Fund, the EAGGF and the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy; - the problems of regional disparities in the context of the pursuit of convergence and cohesion; - an analysis of Community regional policy since its inception.