🌐 Global Economy Jul 23, 2026 · conversableeconomist

The Job Market for Recent College Graduates

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The Job Market for Recent College Graduates
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When I talk with college students, and even high school students, a number of them have a profound sense that it is tremendously hard to find a job coming out of college. The level fear seems to me exaggerated, but some underlying shifts in the young-adult labor market seem quite real.



Here’s a figure from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York showing unemployment rates for recent college graduates and other comparison groups. The light blue line shows the unemployment rate for recent c

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