We examine the wages of graduates inside and outside of academe in the pair the UK and US.

We examine the wages of graduates inside and outside of academe in the pair the UK and US. We find that in the two the UK and the US an average graduate working in the HE sector would earn les above his or her lifetime than graduates working in non-academic sectors. The largest disparity come abouts throughout the earlier and middle career period and in this way if people discount their time to come earnings, the difference will be steady greater than these figures hint Academics in the UK earn les than academics in the US at all ages. This difference cannot be explained from differences in ...