Employers naturally tend to hire the most educated workers on offer, and so as the number of graduates increase, so does the number of “graduate” jobs. However, every study I know of – whether British, Scandinavian, or American – agrees that large numbers of these “graduate” jobs require no more than they did when non-graduates performed them perfectly well.
老板们自然想雇佣教育程度最高的员工，因此随着毕业人数的增长，要求“学历”的工作也越来越多。但据我所知，所有研究－不管在英国、斯堪迪纳维亚还是美国－都得出了几乎相同的结论：所谓“高学历”工作的要求跟以前没多大差别，没有学历的人也一样能完成的很好。从这种意义上讲，很多国家已经是“过度教育”了。