“…Besides, unemployment per se is an incomplete measure of the actual employment situation: in order to obtain a full picture of the current state of youth employment, one must also consider idleness, underemployment, and young people who are over-or underqualified for their employment. While economic inactivity is widely neglected (an exception being Mei, 2008), a variety of studies have looked at the subject of atypical employment (F. Xu, 2008;Gong, 2012;Zhou, 2013;Smith and Chan, 2015;Swider, 2015). Yet only Smith and Chan (2015) and Gong (2012) have explicitly focused on young people.…”