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Does Education Really Help?: Skill, Work, and Inequality

By Edward N. Wolff

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9780195345889, 9780195189964
LCC
HD5724.W6254 2006
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2819551 bytes)
Pages
321\321
Time added
2023-08-08 14:22:25
Labor supply -- Effect of education on -- United S

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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