Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58794 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6177
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of individuals who graduated in 2002/3, micro-data collected by the Higher Education Statistical Agency, are used to calculate the rates of non-graduate job employment 6 months and 42 months after graduation. A logit regression analysis suggests the underemployment is not a short-term phenomenon and is systematically related to a set of observable characteristics. It is also found that under-employment 6 months after graduation is positively related to under-employment 42 months after graduation, which is consistent with the view that the nature of the first job after graduation is important in terms of occupational attainment later in the life-cycle.
Subjects: 
graduates
under-employment
over-education
persistence
United Kingdom
JEL: 
I23
J24
J61
R23
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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