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A 2006 analysis of data from the General Social Survey shows that in 2002, 18.9% of workers aged 55-65 were overqualified for their jobs by 3 or more years; that is, they had 3 or more years of education than required. For workers aged 45-54, 20.1% were overqualified. For workers aged 35-44 and 25-34, the percentage overqualified were 19.0 and 20.8 respectively.
Vaisey, S. (2006). Education and its discontents: Overqualification in America, 1972-2002. Social Forces, 85(2), 835-864.
The data come from the 1972-2002 General Social Survey (GSS). The GSS is a repeated cross-sectional study conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) that interviews approximately 1,500 non-institutionalized adults in the United States about every year.
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