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

Name: Does Education Really Help?
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780195189964
Price: 15450 KES
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9780195189964

by Edward N. Wolff

Book Details

Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0195189965

ISBN-13 9780195189964

Publisher Oxford University Press Inc

Imprint Oxford University Press Inc

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 15th, 2006

Print length 320 Pages

Weight 612 grams

Dimensions 24.30 x 16.30 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Labour / income economics Labour economics Development economics & emerging economies Development economics and emerging economies Political economy

KSh 15,450.00

Currently unavailable 0 in stock

Delivery Location

County

Location

Delivery fee: Select location

Secure

Quality

Fast

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.

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.

Get Does Education Really Help? by Edward N. Wolff at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Oxford University Press Inc and it has 320 pages.