graduates continued to climb, reaching highs not seen since the early 1990s. In this paper, we take a closer look at the jobs … held by underemployed college graduates in the early stages of their careers during the first few years after the Great … Recession. Contrary to popular perception, we show that relatively few recent graduates were working in low-skilled service jobs …

to quantify the impact of for-profit college attendance on the employment and earnings of over one million students …-profit institutions are 1.5 percentage points less likely to be employed and, conditional on employment, have 11 percent lower earnings … ten fields of study. We find that earnings and employment outcomes are particularly poor for students attending for …

to examine the earnings growth of college graduates relative to high school graduates during the 1970s depressed market … for graduates. The principal finding is that the longitudinal/cohort earnings profile for college graduates flattened … markedly relative to that for high school graduates in the 1970s. With smaller growth rates of earnings for the college …

college graduates or for older (45-54 year old) female college graduates. For all these groups, real earnings increased during … the 1980s and the percentage in 'high school jobs' declined. The assertion is valid only for older male college graduates …. Young college graduates improved their labor market position during the 1980s by increasingly obtaining degrees in …

are also large differences across States in the proportion of college graduates in the labor force. State subsidies are … decisions of college graduates. The model is estimated using NLSY data, and used to quantify the sensitivity of migration and …