Growing numbers of university students in Britain and the United States are staying on after their first degrees to invest in a postgraduate qualification. Joanne Lindley and Stephen Machin document this trend and assess the impact on wage inequality - among graduates and across the labour force as a whole.

---

26 October 2011     Paper Number CEPCP351

Download PDF - The boom in postgraduate education and its impact on wage inequality

This CentrePiece article is published under the centre's Education programme.