Overqualification in Employment

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Stepping-Stones or Traps? (2004, background): “Thus, difficulties in immediately finding an appropriate job exist at the upper end of the educational distribution (see also Brynin, 2002).”
Globalisation, knowledge and the myth of the magnet economy (2006, background): “This has led Brynin (2002b) to suggest that: We are, therefore, seeing an increasing demand for graduates but perhaps for work not traditionally at the graduate level.”
‘The degree is not enough’: students’ perceptions of the role of higher education credentials for graduate work and employability (2008, background): “There is further evidence to suggest that an increasing amount of graduates are overqualified for the types of employment they attain (Battu, Belfield and Sloane 2000; Brynin 2002).”
Mapping knowledge in work: proxies or practices? (2006, background): “Since the 1980s ‘credentialism’ has risen at graduate (Green, 2004) and other levels in the UK (Felstead et al., 2002) and in other countries (Brynin, 2002; OECD, 1994).”
Workforce Skills and Innovation: An Overview of Major Themes in the Literature. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 55. (2011, background): “In addition it is difficult to square the claim of a generalised rise in the demand for skills with studies that suggest credentialism and over-qualification are widespread in developed economies (Brynin 2002; Wolf 2004; Green and Zhu, 2010).”