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overeducated (work in occupations with lower skills requirements) than individuals with higher tertiary education. The share of overeducated is also highly influenced by the field of study. In Table 4, I analyze overeducation by fields of study of secondary and tertiary educated individuals separately, because the same fields imply very different qualifications if they are studied at the secondary and at the tertiary level. For secondary educated, the share of subjectively overeducated ranges from more than 25% of overeducated among those who studied secretarial and office work, textiles production, electronics and automatization, agriculture, and food production, to less than 20% of overeducated for electrotechnics and energetics, motor vehicles engineering, architecture and construction, engineering and metallurgy, and medicine (see Table 4). For tertiary educated, the largest share of subjectively overeducated can be found among those who studied math and statistics (34%), marketing (33%), and tourism (32%). The best fields of study at the tertiary level from the subjective point of view are medicine, pharmacy, law, languages, security services and some technical fields (mainly electronics and automatization). The empirical measure of overeducation then provides a slightly different picture. Among secondary educated individuals, the share of overeducation is the largest for those who studied transportation, agriculture, and secretarial and office work, while the lowest share is among fields of study including textiles and food production, services for households and individuals, and economics. Tertiary educated are most likely to be empirically overeducated for their position if they studied tourism, security services, medicine, and agriculture, and least likely to be overeducated if they studied information technology, law, pedagogy, and pharmacy (Table 4). 20