Skip to main content

Table 3 Distributions of Educational Attainment and Required Education, and Rates of Mismatch

From: What do people do at work?Was machen Menschen bei der Arbeit?

Aggregate distribution

Attained

Required

Attained – Required

<High school

9.0

7.6

1.4

High school

25.9

42.6

−16.7

High school + vocational

5.7

6.3

−0.6

<Bachelors

29.1

16.5

12.6

Bachelors

20.0

20.8

−0.8

Graduate

10.3

6.3

4.0

Individual matches

All

30 ≤ Age ≤ 59

 

Under-educated

13.2

14.1

 

Matched

55.3

57.4

 

Over-educated

31.5

28.6

 
  1. Note: All figures are percentages