Název: Graduates in a cycle: the effect of business cycle trajectories on labor market outcomes of college graduates
Autoři: Pavlova, Margarita
Typ dokumentu: Výzkumné zprávy
Rok: 2026
Jazyk: eng
Edice: CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, svazek: 816
Abstrakt: I re-evaluate the long-term effects of graduating from college during a recession by focusing on entire business cycle trajectories, as opposed to unemployment at graduation. Using CPS data from 1976-2024, I suggest that the persistent gap in earnings between those graduating during high versus low unemployment chiefly corresponds to the effects of unemployment at graduation on graduates of lower GPA, SAT scores and socio-economic background who enrolled in lower-tier colleges because unemployment was high at the time of their high-school graduation. While the scarring effects of graduating during a recession are large and last for over a decade for these marginal graduates, the scarring effects are smaller than previously thought and fade within three years for student cohorts enrolling in college in a low-unemployment labor market. I also show that adverse labor market conditions beyond the year of college graduation exert a stronger influence on long-term outcomes of graduates than the unemployment rate at graduation. Following unemployment trajectories and accounting for selective enrollment highlights the policy-relevant vulnerability of marginal graduates to recessions.
Klíčová slova: business cycles; college graduates; labor market
Číslo projektu: EH23_025/0008693
Poskytovatel projektu: GA MŠk

Instituce: Národohospodářský ústav AV ČR (web)
Informace o dostupnosti dokumentu: Dokument je dostupný na externích webových stránkách.
Externí umístění souboru: https://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp816.pdf
Původní záznam: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0378571

Trvalý odkaz NUŠL: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-697447


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