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1 in 4 unemployed Australians has a degree. How did we get to this point?

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1 in 4 unemployed Australians has a degree. How did we get to this point?
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.ht9tq6en6
Authors

Small, Lynlea, McPhail, Ruth, Shaw, Amie

Abstract

More and more Australians are gaining university degrees. And increasingly that means a degree does not guarantee a job, although it did appear to offer some protection against COVID job losses.

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 88. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 December 2024.
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Altmetric has tracked 33,931,414 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
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