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

• Autore: Wolff Edward N
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xi, 308 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 331.11/423
• Soggetto topico: Labor supply - Effect of education on - United States; Occupational training - United States; Income distribution - United States
• Note generali: "A Century Foundation book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-297) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Does education really help
• ISBN: 0195345886; 9780195345889
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807922103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II