Graduate earnings premium ‘may fall’ with further HE expansion

Institute for Fiscal Studies says firms’ ability to accommodate more highly educated workers may be coming to an end

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August 18, 2016

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February 16, 2017

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Look out ahead: more graduates could mean their salary differential compared with school-leavers shrinks

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