Does Education Really Help?
Skill, Work, and Inequality
1st Edition
Published on 25. April 2006
321 pages
978-0-19-534588-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book 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. Indeed, the econometric results provide no evidence that the growth of skills or educational attainment has any statistically significant relation to earnings growth or that greater equality in schooling has led to a decline in income inequality. Results also indicate that computer investment is negatively related to earnings gains and positively associated with changes in both income inequality and the dispersion of worker skills. The findings reports here have direct relevance to ongoing policy debates on educational reform in the U.S.
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Content
- 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
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
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- S
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