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Table 1 Descriptive statistics

From: Europe’s evolving graduate labour markets: supply, demand, underemployment and pay

 

Mean

Standard deviation

Inter-period/country range

Tertiary graduate attainment share in the labour force (%)

28.6

8.8

33.0

Share of high-skilled occupations (%)

42.2

6.9

29.7

Under-employment rate among graduates (%)

17.9

7.4

32.5

Graduates’ wages (PPP-adjusted monthly € earnings, 2015 prices)

3558.4

1217.3

5662.9

Agea

41.5

1.5

6.1

Percentage malea

48.8

6.3

26.4

Percentage foreign borna

12.2

11.0

55.0

  1. Europe 2005/2015
  2. Derived from unweighted country averages
  3. aBase is the working-age population with tertiary qualifications