Was die Geschichte der Absolventenarbeitslosigkeit falsch macht

Thought this was an interesting an analysis:

“A 23-year-old college graduate newly looking for a job is highly exposed to the current hiring slowdown. A 23-year-old who exited the education system several years ago aged 18 entered a different, more buoyant labour market, making them far less exposed to the sudden freeze in hiring today. This is not a like-for-like comparison.”

“To determine whether recent graduates are having an especially tough time in 2025’s low-hiring environment, the comparison we should make instead is with others who recently entered the labour market for the first time, regardless of age. A newly job-seeking graduate might be in their mid-twenties, but someone entering the world of work straight from high school will be several years younger.”

“Applying the same adjustment on the other side of the Atlantic reveals a similar pattern in western Europe: young workers without a degree have seen an uptick in joblessness rates of 2.4 percentage points on average compared with 1.4 for recent graduates”

Uni isn’t for all and should never have been pushed so hard by previous governments.

I went to Uni about 20 years ago and it’s done FA for my career. It just allowed me time to pretend to be an adult for a few years. Back then the student loans were not a lifetime crippling debt and I found a career that I sort of liked and did ok for myself with.

Frankly you don’t need a degree to do the vast majority of jobs out there. Companies put an arbitrary bar on needing degrees just to try and whittle down who to recruit.