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Overqualified Employees: Perspectives of Older Workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Kenneth S. Shultz*
Affiliation:
California State University, San Bernardino
Deborah A. Olson
Affiliation:
University of La Verne
Mo Wang
Affiliation:
University of Maryland
*
E-mail: kshultz@csusb.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, California State University, San Bernardino, 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2011 

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