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February 2020

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    258 million workers over-educated for their jobs

    26 February 2020

    More than 935 million workers in the world have jobs that don’t match their educational level: 72% of them are under-educated for their jobs, while the remaining 28% are over-educated. This new data in ILOSTAT covers 114 countries, which means that the actual global figures are probably much higher.

November 2015

  1. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2015 KILM

    5. Employment by occupation

    16 November 2015

    The indicator for employment by occupation comprises statistics on jobs classified according to major groups as defined in one or more versions of the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO).

December 1991

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    International standard classification of occupations (Isco-88) with diskette

    31 December 1991