Does education really help? : skill, work, and inequality / Edward N. Wolff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolff, Edward N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor supply--Effect of education on--United States.

Labor supply.

Occupational training--United States.

Occupational training.

Income distribution--United States.

Income distribution.

Physical Description:

xi, 308 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Conventional wisdom is that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages and income inequality falls with wider access to schooling. Yet, since the early 1970s earnings stagnated and inequality climbed while educational attainment and worker skills gained rapidly and dispersion in schooling levels plummeted. The book explores these apparent paradoxes.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

1 Postwar Trends in Income, Earnings, and Schooling

2 Technology and the Demand for Skills

3 Wages and Skills

4 Productivity and Skill Change

5 The Growth of the Information Economy

6 Skill Dispersion and Earnings Inequality

7 Skills and Changing Comparative Advantage

8 Conclusions and Policy Recommendations

Data Appendix

References

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

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H

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J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Z.

Notes:

"A Century Foundation book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-297) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0195345886

9780195345889

OCLC:

776942672