Since the great recession, the steady drumbeat of increasing the number of college graduates and diversifying the Arizona economy has gotten louder.
More grads are supposed to equal more jobs and higher wages, but how broad would the benefits be?
A new study by a couple of ASU economists, The Economic Impact of Raising the Educational Attainment of Arizona’s Workforce, concludes that workers without degrees would do quite well.
Dennis Hoffman is director of the Seidman Research Institute at ASU’s W.P. Carey School of Business and a co-author of the study.
