(OVER EDUCATED, UNDER EMPLOYED) About 1/4 to 1/3 of people are overeducated for

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/10/a_primer_on_mal.htmlMAL-EMPLOYMENT (OVER EDUCATED, UNDER EMPLOYED)

About 1/4 to 1/3 of people are overeducated for their positions.(weighted toward the social sciences).

But over-education only applies to College Level Occupations. Low and semi skilled workers are not sufficiently educated (as are germans because of their apprenticeship approach to education.)

American society envisions that everyone can join the middle class; that education is not job preparation, but indoctrination in the cult of democracy. And that we are all capable of learning independently. All three of these assumptions are empirically and logically false.