Lifelong Learning and Underemployment in the Knowledge Society: A North American Perspective.

Contrary to pervasive assumptions about the need for lifelong learning, U.S. and Canadian adults' collective learning efforts far outpace workplace requirements. Underemployment has several dimensions: the talent-use gap, structural unemployment, involuntary reduced employment, credential gap, performance gap, and subjective underemployment. Substantial economic reforms are needed, not more emphasis on lifelong learning. Contains 92 references. (Author/SV)