The Race between Education and Technology

Lawrence F. Katz

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$28.00 • £22.95 • €25.00

ISBN 9780674035300

Publication Date: 03/30/2010

Short

496 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

51 line illustrations, 42 tables

Belknap Press

World

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Introduction
I. Economic Growth and Distribution
- 1. The Human Capital Century
- 2. Inequality across the Twentieth Century
- 3. Skill-Biased Technological Change
II. Education for the Masses in Three Transformations
- 4. Origins of the Virtues
- 5. Economic Foundations of the High School Movement
- 6. America’s Graduation from High School
- 7. Mass Higher Education in the Twentieth Century
III. The Race
- 8. The Race between Education and Technology
- 9. How America Once Led and Can Win the Race for Tomorrow
Appendix A. The 1915 Iowa State Census Sample
Appendix B. Construction of State-Level Secondary School Data
Appendix C. Construction of City-Level Secondary School Data Set
Appendix D. Construction of Wage Bill Shares and Educational Wage Differentials, 1915 to 2005
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

2009 Richard A. Lester Award, Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University

2008 R.R. Hawkins Award, Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers

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