Are non-graduate jobs ‘upgrading’ to give the graduates who do them more autonomy?

By Craig Holmes, Charoula Tzanakou, Daria Luchinskaya and Ken Mayhew. In an ideal world, everyone investing in their skills through education and training would enter the labour market and find a job which took full advantage of those skills. Concerns that this has not been the case for successive cohorts of university graduates are long-standing, particularly in the UK following the rapid expansion of the higher education sector in the early 1990s. However, there is wide disagreement about the extent of the problem, or how much it has changed over the past couple of decades. More...