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Why governments have overestimated the economic returns of higher education - The Economist explains

The Economist (2018)

AUTOMATION and globalisation have brought drastic changes to Western labour markets. Middle-skilled jobs are disappearing fast. In America, wages for blue-collar workers have been largely stagnant since the 1970s, whereas those for university graduates have soared.

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