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

by Edward N. Wolff

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"