. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended … average strength of the labor market to which a college sends its graduates predicts college-specific intergenerational … of considering migration patterns of college graduates when estimating the social return on public investment in higher …

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 …