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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

examine these predictions across British systems of higher education. Using survey data on 1980 university graduates, I find …

in terms of foregone skills. Using survey and administrative data on university graduates, I find that individuals from …