the unemployment rate for college graduates as a whole
peaked at around 5 percent in 2010, while the unemployment
rate for recent college graduates peaked at around 7 percent.
For the period 1990 through the first quarter of 2013, the
unemployment rate averaged 4.3 percent for recent college
graduates compared with 2.9 percent for all college graduates.
These results suggest that finding a job tends to be more
difficult for those just out of school than for those who have
been out of school longer; moreover, this disparity exists at all
points in the business cycle