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Title: How Many Workers with a Bachelor's Degree are Overqualified for Their Jobs?

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: This study developed a new approach to determine whether college graduates are employed in good-fit jobs. I used three large data sets: the long form samples from the 1980 and 2000 US censuses and the 2014 American Community Survey. Each of these data sets has at least 1 million observations of people currently working with their corresponding demographic, educational, occupational, and earnings information. Further, the coding of all three surveys has been synchronized by a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota. For each of the three years (1980, 2000, and 2014), I evaluated up to 449 occupations to see if they were good-fit jobs for someone with a college degree (appendix B provides a more detailed discussion of sources and methods).

Url: http://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/87951/college_mismatch_final.pdf

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Authors: Rose, Stephen J

Publisher: Urban Institute

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Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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