Ever since those concerned with educational policy have become aware of its relationship to the so-called employment system, discussion on this theme has been dominated by the question of the need for graduates with specific educational degrees. Experts have based, and still base, their arguments and demands concerning educational policy on the necessities of the employment system. This is true both of the pioneers of educational expansion in the 1960s and of all those who now warn about an overproduction of university graduates. For example in the 1960s it was argued that if additional highly qualified personnel could not be made available, further economic growth would be arrested due to an insuperable bottleneck. Today, on the other hand, it is argued that a majority of university graduates is doomed to unemployment, since there is no place for them in the employment structure. In contrast, this paper contends that:
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Burkart Lutz (1981) studied this question.