Employment Status

Absent Employment Status

Expressions activating this band do not reliably indicate paid work status and instead focus on unrelated satisfaction, background, relationship, or general contextual content. Employment is absent or too weakly specified to determine a clear work-status state.

Background Employment Status

Expressions activating this band mention work, training, or job quality as background life circumstances, such as occupational fit, earnings opportunity, volunteer activity, or general job satisfaction. Paid work is present as a contextual topic rather than as an immediate question of being employed or jobless.

Constrained Employment Status

Expressions activating this band indicate unstable or limited connection to paid work, including prolonged unemployment, difficulty finding work, uncertainty about employability, or discouragement about job prospects. Employment is experienced as constrained access to steady work.

Salient Employment Status

Expressions activating this band center directly on current work standing and its practical importance, such as receiving pay, being self-employed, wanting a job, expecting future work, or evaluating the possibility of finding another job. Employment is framed as an active and consequential personal condition.

Acute Employment Status

Expressions activating this band focus explicitly on whether a person currently has paid work or is actively trying to obtain it, with direct references to being employed, jobless, applying, interviewing, hiring, or searching. Employment status is immediate, concrete, and central in the expression.

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