Young graduates fall under the Abbott cosh (members)

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By Leith van Onselen

Business Spectator’s Toli Papadopoulos published an interesting article over the weekend entitled Overqualified and underemployed: meet Australia’s graduates, which highlighted the great difficulties Australia’s graduates are experiencing trying to find work:

More and more of Australians are becoming overqualified and underemployed. A 2013 report by the Foundation for Young Australians, found 26 per cent of Australian higher education graduates are underutilised immediately after completing their courses.

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.