Education, Skills, and Technical Change : Implications for Future US GDP Growth / Charles R. Hulten, Valerie A. Ramey.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Hulten, Charles R., Editor.

Ramey, Valerie A., Editor.

Conference Name:

Education, Skills, and Technical Change: Implications for Future U.S. GDP Growth (Conference) (2015 : Bethesda, Md.), creator.

Series:

Studies in income and wealth ; volume 77.

Chicago scholarship online.

National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Labor supply.

Labor supply--Effect of technological innovations on--United States--Congresses.

Education--Effect of technological innovations on--United States--Congresses.

Education.

Gross domestic product--Social aspects--United States--Congresses.

Gross domestic product.

Human capital--United States--Congresses.

Human capital.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (517 pages).

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Over the past few decades, US business and industry have been transformed by the advances and redundancies produced by the knowledge economy. The workplace has changed, and much of the work differs from that performed by previous generations. Can human capital accumulation in the United States keep pace with the evolving demands placed on it, and how can the workforce of tomorrow acquire the skills and competencies that are most in demand? Education, Skills, and Technical Change explores various facets of these questions and provides an overview of educational attainment in the United States and the channels through which labor force skills and education affect GDP growth. Contributors to this volume focus on a range of educational and training institutions and bring new data to bear on how we understand the role of college and vocational education and the size and nature of the skills gap. This work links a range of research areas-such as growth accounting, skill development, higher education, and immigration-and also examines how well students are being prepared for the current and future world of work.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Educational Attainment and the Revival of US Economic Growth

2. The Outlook for US Labor- Quality Growth

3. The Importance of Education and Skill Development for Economic Growth in the Information Era

4. Underemployment in the Early Careers of College Graduates following the Great Recession

5. The Requirements of Jobs Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey

6. Noncognitive Skills as Human Capital

7. Wage Inequality and Cognitive Skills Reopening the Debate

8. Education and the Growth- Equity Trade- Off

9. Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium Polarization, Skill Downgrading, or Both?

10. Accounting for the Rise in College Tuition

11. Online Postsecondary Education and Labor Productivity

12. High-Skilled Immigration and the Rise of STEM Occupations in US Employment

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226567945

022656794X

OCLC:

1078560559