Educational Attainment and Educational Mismatch in the First Employment in Spain

Table 1

Youth educational mismatch in the first significant employment (%).

	Total	Men	Women
Adequately matched; workers	48.8	49.3	48.1
Overeducated workers	32.4	30.6	34.9
Undereducated workers	18.8	20.0	17.0

Source: author’s elaboration from Spanish Module on School to Work Transitions (2000).