, mainly focusing on the United States, has found that graduates of prestigious and selective colleges enjoy a wage premium … over graduates of other institutions when they enter the labour market. In this paper, we use data from the Graduate …

available in the Additional file 1. We find that the massive influx of graduates into the labour force has been absorbed with no … overeducated graduates increased by 11 log points. Using the British Household Panel Study, we find that the persistence of … overeducation status did not change but for non-employed male graduates moving into employment, the chances of entering a graduate …

analysis focuses on Italian graduates and refers to the cohort that graduated in 2007 using data from the AlmaLaurea survey on … graduates' career paths. A new measure of overeducation is introduced and it is jointly examined along with other pre …