The first is unemployment of educated young people in North Africa and the Middle East which is not yet a political movement or social upheaval in the US or Europe- but which is in the forefront of public policy and partisan politics.

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For instance, unemployment among college-educated members of the creative classes was 3.2% after the recession, compared to a 5.9% unemployment rate among college grads in service class careers and 8.7% among college grads in working class careers.

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Silicon Valley is part of a large and highly-educated nation that currently has a high unemployment rate.

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Levine and Coile note that in recent years the retirement effect caused by unemployment has been concentrated among less-educated groups.

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We also factored in federal unemployment data and median salaries for local college-educated workers, courtesy of Payscale.com.

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Partly because fewer college-educated workers lost their jobs during the recession, so lower unemployment rates in some cities simply reflect a brainier citizenry.

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Overall, more-educated workers do not (to any statistically significant extent) increase their likelihood of retiring in response to rising unemployment rates, the study found.

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