This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of …

is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … earnings equation on the standardised gender pay gap. Female graduates are less likely to be overeducated, compared to male … graduates. Overeducation, while associated with substantial penalties, is not a substantial contributor to the gender wage gap. …

,000 graduates from undergraduate degrees in the UK in 2013. Labour market outcomes at six-months and 42-months post-graduation are …, with arguments from both equity and efficiency for policies to help graduates to attain graduate level jobs. …

This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of …

Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper … investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of study. We document a large heterogeneity in the mean … wages of graduates from different subjects and a considerably larger one within subject with individuals with the most …

This paper investigates the differences in early occupational earnings of UK male graduates by degree subject during …

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

There is much disagreement in the literature over the extent to which graduates are mismatched in the labour market and … cast light on these issues, based on data for UK graduates. REFLEX examines the labour market status of graduates five …

regularly complain of qualified scientist shortages blaming the higher wages in other occupations for luring graduates out of … scientific occupations. Using a survey of recent British graduates from Higher Education we report that fewer than 50% of science … graduates work in a scientific occupation three years after graduation. The wage premium observed for science graduates stems …