"This volume contains revised versions of the papers presented at the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth entitled "Education, Skills, and Technical Change: Implications for Future U.S.GDP Growth", held in Bethesda, Maryland, on October 16-17, 2015"--Publisher info. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction / Charles R. Hulten and Valerie A. Ramey -- The macroeconomic link between education and real GDP growth. High-skilled immigration and the rise of STEM occupations in US employment / Gordon H. Hanson and Matthew J. Slaughter ; comment: John Bound. The outlook for U.S. labor-quality growth / Canyon Bosler, Mary C. Daly, John G. Fernald, and Bart Hobijn ; comments: Douglas W. Elmendorf ; The importance of education and skill development for economic growth in the information era / Charles R. Hulten -- Jobs and skills requirements. Underemployment in the early careers of college graduates following The Great Recession / Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz ; The requirements of jobs: evidence from a nationally representative survey / Maury Gittleman, Kristen Monaco, and Nicole Nestoriak -- Skills, inequality, and polarization. Non-cognitive skills as human capital / Shelly Lundberg ; comment: David J. Deming -- Wage inequality and cognitive skills: re-opening the debate / Stijn Broecke, Glenda Quintini, and Marieke Vandeweyer ; comment: Frank Levy ; Education and the growth-equity tradeoff / Eric A. Hanushek -- Recent flattening in the higher education wage premium: polarization, skill downgrading, or both? / Robert G.Valletta ; comment: David Autor -- The supply of skills. Accounting for the rise in college tuition / Grey Gordon and Aaron Hedlund ; comment: Sandy Baum ; Online postsecondary education and labor productivity / Caroline M. Hoxby ; comment: Nora Gordon ; High-skilled immigration and the rise of STEM occupations in US employment / Gordon H. Hanson and Matthew J. Slaughter ; comment: John Bound.
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