supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate … of return to graduates or graduate mark-ups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising … defines graduate jobs in terms of the proportion of graduates and/or the graduate earnings mark-up within occupations, we find …

supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate … of return to graduates or graduate markups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising … defines graduate jobs in terms of the proportion of graduates and/or the graduate earnings markup within occupations, we find …

that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s in the US led to a decrease in the returns … to college education. We argue that Duncan and Hoffman's augmented wage equation the workhorse model in the overeducation … literature in which wages are regressed on years of overschooling, years of required schooling and years of underschooling is at …

During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper … investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We define over-education by …. We therefore define three groups of graduates: matched, apparently over-educated and genuinely over-educated; to compare …

We model the joint distribution of (i) individual education trajectories, defined by the allocation of time (semesters …

Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high-school. Unlike … previous research using Canadian data, our dataset allows us to control for ability selection into higher education. We find … strong evidence of positive ability selection into all levels of post-secondary education for men and weaker positive …

college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage points in the college premium. We show that …

migration, occupational choice, and earnings where, upon completing their education, individuals choose a location in which to … estimates of the returns to business and STEM majors relative to education majors are biased upward by 15% on average. Using …

both types of the educational mismatch.The quality of education is also a factor, suggesting that in addition to the low … jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. Overeducation/overskilling are relatively high – at 11 …

We study the relative labour market wage outcomes of university graduates in the UK using the Labour Force Survey (LFS … undergraduate degree subjects, degree class, and in particular the selectivity of the subject at the Higher Education Institution …