Figure 2.
Growth in Real GDP, Nonfarm Employment, and Mean Wages Among College-Educated Workers, 1994–2006
Sources: For GDP, data are from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (http://www.bea.gov). Data for nonfarm employment are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov). Wage figures are from author’s calculations using the Merged Outgoing Rotation Groups (MORG) extracts of the Current Population Survey.