China's college graduates are suffering from various types of underemployment, especially manifested in a mismatch between their qualifications and expectations and the actual jobs they are in. This is the result of a shortfall in university education and structural problems in the economy. A socioeconomic conundrum, the problem of educated underemployment will require reforms in both higher education and the economic structure.
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Yanjie Huang (2013) studied this question.