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

by Edward N. Wolff

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195189965

ISBN13:9780195189964

Release Date:April 2006

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.28 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

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Education Education & Reference Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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