tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post3774928139413834275..comments2024-03-22T06:05:36.544-04:00Comments on Kids Prefer Cheese: Get thee to a universityMungowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02340064320347875601noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-63320932666039079122012-09-07T17:22:36.195-04:002012-09-07T17:22:36.195-04:00Hi there,
I read your post Get thee to a universit...Hi there,<br />I read your post Get thee to a university, and can feel free to recommend other readers because it is meticulously written and rich with real data.<br />Thank you for such a good article :)<br />www.additionaljobsonline.blogspot.comAlexhttp://additionaljobsonline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-36254544574443784322012-09-07T06:15:08.911-04:002012-09-07T06:15:08.911-04:00thanksthanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-36486640819770509552012-08-20T18:01:41.669-04:002012-08-20T18:01:41.669-04:00Aehm. What kind of jobs are we talking about. If t...Aehm. What kind of jobs are we talking about. If the small portion of the college students all get a government job than all this tells is that stimulus has the function to keep degree holders in Jobs.! If this is a scale of private sector jobs then it is because employers still believe that college degrees show discipline and are easier to employ. At least in my opinion that is. Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00950263043962148304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-88974706379467608122012-08-20T16:09:40.127-04:002012-08-20T16:09:40.127-04:00Ah, good point about the Census.Ah, good point about the Census.kebkonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-55668954093213247362012-08-20T14:13:58.855-04:002012-08-20T14:13:58.855-04:00re: Kebko -- I suspect the spring 2010 bump is mos...re: Kebko -- I suspect the spring 2010 bump is most likely related to census hiring. If you look at the percent job loss graph at:<br /><br />http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/08/employment-another-fairly-weak-report.html<br /><br />you can see how the census affected the overall curve of employement.Dirty Daveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07908818235405186822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-90919135035236804042012-08-20T12:57:47.122-04:002012-08-20T12:57:47.122-04:00I have to comment one more time. First, I noticed...I have to comment one more time. First, I noticed that there are actually 3 kinks in the "high school or less" line where the trend is sharply bent down without a corresponding change in the other lines - 1990, late 1996, and 2007. These are the 3 times when minimum wage increases were passed. Actually, there is a fourth spot that can be seen in the first graph, which is the sharp reversal in spring 2010. It certainly seems interesting that this very odd turnaround in the recovery happened there. Obviously the most significant event of that time was the passage of Obamacare.<br /><br />And, I think Russ Roberts would have something to say about treating the sub-populations and job pool as stable over decades.<br /><br />And, I think Bryan Caplan would have something to say about heady conclusions that ignore obvious signalling complications.<br /><br />This study just seems poor. And, to conclude that the solution is to get the few people who don't already attempt to go to college to sign up for it. Something useful to do would be to go interview college and high-school drop-outs. There are millions of them. They aren't hard to find. They might have something to add to the discussion.kebkonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-90975192749954641972012-08-19T20:52:05.853-04:002012-08-19T20:52:05.853-04:00If I am hiring and I have a choice of a candidate ...If I am hiring and I have a choice of a candidate who was intelligent enough, conformist enough and diligent enough to have graduated from college and a one who has not, all else being equal, I will hire the college grad. So with rising unemployment I would expect college grads to take less desirable jobs but not to be unemployed.JWOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-82941690733710620002012-08-19T13:58:13.678-04:002012-08-19T13:58:13.678-04:00I think a good chunk of the decrease is related to...I think a good chunk of the decrease is related to lower teenage employment resulting from minimum wage increases, which helps to explain why the decline begins before the recession. If obamacare creates relatively higher costs for low wage employment, I would expect there to be a continuing drag on that category.<br />For the longer term trends, wouldn't you need to account for population changes? I assume that the population with some college has grown much faster over the last few decades than the population with no college.<br />It seems to me like there are other causes that lead to this relationship. Shouldn't that be our expectation? Unemployment is caused by frictions. Without frictions, any causation should show up in wages, not employment.kebkonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-12021413263537162322012-08-19T09:46:28.082-04:002012-08-19T09:46:28.082-04:00What of the meme/fact/claim/outcry that a huge per...What of the meme/fact/claim/outcry that a huge percent of degree holders are in non-degree-requiring jobs? Perhaps this has just always been the case but it was an embarrassment to humanities departments?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-87243368669957730842012-08-19T09:00:19.857-04:002012-08-19T09:00:19.857-04:00The correlation is easy to see. I would like to se...The correlation is easy to see. I would like to see a study* concerning causation. In the rose colored ivory tower, the "college teaches what employers need" meme will be popular. I have doubts on that. A good study would have to separate out the kind of person who would go to college if he could from more natural dropouts. There also might be a hiring bias, where potential employers use the college degree question as a cheap filter.<br /><br /><br />*A study done by a highly educated person, of course!Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08574355302581451838noreply@blogger.com