Overinvestment in College Training?.

Freeman, Richard B.

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Publication Date: 1975

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Overinvestment in College Training?

Freeman, Richard B.

Journal of Human Resources, 10, 3, 287-311, 75

Examines the quantitative dimensions, causes, and consequences of the "new depression" in the college job market, explaining the downturn as slackened demand due to changes in industrial structure and growth of supply, and finding that the fraction of young men choosing college fell in the seventies in response to the market. (Editor/JT)

Descriptors: College Graduates, Economic Factors, Educational Benefits, Educational Demand, Educational Supply, Higher Education, Human Resources, Labor Market, National Surveys, Research

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