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Does education really help? : skill, work, and inequality /

This work challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wider access to schooling, and that the information technology revolution will re-ignite worker pay.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolff, Edward N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
Labor supply > Effect of education on > United States.
Occupational training > United States.
Income distribution > United States.
Marché du travail > Effets de l'éducation sur > États-Unis.
Revenu > Répartition > États-Unis.
Income distribution
Labor supply > Effect of education on
Occupational training
United States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Human Resources & Personnel Management.
Qualifikation
Arbeitsangebot
Bildungsinvestition
Bildungsertrag
Einkommensverteilung
USA
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z