Job losses persist for less educated, study finds

After suffering the largest share of job losses in the recession, Americans with no more than a high school education have continued to lose jobs during the sputtering recovery, while better-educated people have gained millions of jobs, according to a Georgetown University study.

During the recession, as millions of jobs vanished, the number of people with bachelor’s degrees who had jobs did not decline. But as employment rose during the recovery, people who did not go to college kept losing ground, shedding 200,000 jobs from early 2010 to early 2012.

From late 2007, when the recession began, to early 2012, people with jobs in the least educated group fell by more than 5.8 million, or 10 percent. In the middle group, recession losses were not as steep and were almost completely reversed by early this year. In the most educated group, in which there was no net loss during the recession, people with jobs climbed by 2.2 million, or 5 percent.

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