Education, Skills, and Technical Change
Implications for Future US GDP Growth

National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth Series 77

by Charles R. Hulten, Valerie A. Ramey

ISBN-13: 9780226567808
ISBN-10: 022656780X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Binding: Hardcover
Publication Year: 2018

Condition: Very Good – clean text

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Contents:
Prefatory Note
Introduction
I. The Macroeconomic Link between Education and Real GDP Growth
   1. Educational Attainment and the Revival of US Economic Growth
   2. The Outlook for US Labor-Quality Growth
   3. The Importance of Education and Skill Development for Economic Growth in the Information Era
II. Jobs and Skills Requirements
   4. Underemployment in the Early Careers of College Graduates following the Great Recession
   5. The Requirements of Jobs: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey
III. Skills, Inequality, and Polarization
   6. Noncognitive Skills as Human Capital
   7. Wage Inequality and Cognitive Skills: Reopening the Debate
   8. Education and the Growth-Equity Trade-Off
   9. Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium: Polarization, Skill Downgrading, or Both?
IV. The Supply of Skills
   10. Accounting for the Rise in College Tuition
   11. Online Postsecondary Education and Labor Productivity
   12. High-Skilled Immigration and the Rise of STEM Occupations in US Employment
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index


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