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. 2024 Nov 26;40(1):34. doi: 10.1007/s10680-024-09723-5

Table 6.

The share of overqualified employees in the study population (%) by immigrant generation status and gender, in 2013 and 2016, using the mean-based and the mode-based methods

Mode-based Mean-based
Majority G2 G1 Total Majority G2 G1 Total
2016
Men 27.8 27.5 43.3 30.0 12.0 12.2 28.1 14.3
Women 26.7 27.5 42.1 29.1 11.7 12.4 26.6 14.0
2013
Men 28.1 27.7 43.4 30.0 12.7 12.9 27.5 14.6
Women 27.7 28.7 42.8 29.8 12.0 12.6 25.5 13.8

Majority = the Majority Swedish population, G2 = the second-generation, G1 = the first-generation immigrants