Do Fields of Study Matter for Over-education?

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Overeducation among European University Graduates: a comparative analysis of its incidence and the importance of higher education differentiation (2011, methodology): “Again, humanistic fields are expected to be in a less favourable position, as compared for instance to medicine, law or architecture ( Ortiz and Kucel 2008 ).”
How Useful is the Concept of Skills Mismatch? (2017, background): “The evidence indicates that overeducation is more prevalent among graduates of social sciences, services and humanities (Ortiz and Kucel, 2008), in workplaces that rely heavily on shift and part-time workers (Belfield, 2010) and areas where commuting to other labour markets is difficult (Ramos and…”