Overqualified Women: What Can Be Done About This Potentially Bad Situation?

Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 256-259

  Luksyte, Aleksandra ^a   Spitzmueller, Christiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

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EID: 84867675316     PISSN: 17549426     EISSN: 17549434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-9434.2011.01338.x     Document Type: Article

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