• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Does education really help? : skill, work, and inequality
  • Contributor: Wolff, Edward N. [Author]
  • imprint: New York ;; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006
  • Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 308 p.); ill
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189964.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780199850792
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  • Keywords: Labor supply Effect of education on United States ; Occupational training United States ; Income distribution United States
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
  • Description: This work 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.