2.3 Skills-related underemployment by ethnic group

Figure 2.3 shows workers from ethnic-minority groups are more likely to find themselves in jobs for which they are overqualified than are white workers. Furthermore, after the great recession underemployment grew among ethnic-minority groups: the percentage overqualified increased and then remained steady at a higher level. Underemployment among white workers rose steadily from 2010.

FIGURE 2.3: Ethnic-minority groups are more likely to find themselves in jobs for which they are overqualified