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What flattened the earnings profile of recent college graduates?

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Over their working lifetimes, college graduates who entered the workforce many decades ago experienced a greater increase in wages than more-recent college graduates.

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  • Yu-Chien Kong & B. Ravikumar, 2013. "What flattened the earnings profile of recent college graduates?," Economic Synopses, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
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