Informationen zum Autor Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz Klappentext This book provides an historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and U.S. wage structure through the 20th century. During the first 80 years of the 20th century, the increase of educated workers was higher than demand for them. This boosted income for most and lowered inequality. The reverse has been true since about 1980. Zusammenfassung This book provides an historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and U.S. wage structure through the 20th century. During the first 80 years of the 20th century! the increase of educated workers was higher than demand for them. This boosted income for most and lowered inequality. The reverse has been true since about 1980. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Introduction Part I: Economic Growth and Distribution * The Human Capital Century * Inequality across the Twentieth Century * Skill-biased Technological Change Part II: Education for the Masses in Three Transformations * The Origins of the Virtues * Economic Foundations of the High School Movement * America's Graduation from High School * Mass Higher Education in the Twentieth Century Part III. The Race * The Race between Education and Technology * How America Once Led and Can Win the Race for Tomorrow * Appendix A * Appendix B * Appendix C * Appendix D * Notes * References * A Note on Sources * Acknowledgments * Index

Autorentext
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Lawrence Katz is Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Klappentext
An incisive history of American education-its great success in creating prosperity and equality during the twentieth century and its relative decline since the 1970s.

"As Goldin and Katz have argued, the 20th century was the American century in large part because it was the human-capital century. Education-knowledge-can help people live better by allowing them to learn from past errors and make new discoveries." -David Leonhardt, New York Times

This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century. That is, the American educational system is what made America the richest nation in the world. Its educational system had always been less elite than that of most European nations. By 1900 the U.S. had begun to educate its masses at the secondary level, not just in the primary schools that had remarkable success in the nineteenth century.

The book argues that technological change, education, and inequality have been involved in a kind of race. During the first eight decades of the twentieth century, the increase of educated workers was higher than the demand for them. This had the effect of boosting income for most people and lowering inequality. However, the reverse has been true since about 1980. This educational slowdown was accompanied by rising inequality. The authors discuss the complex reasons for this, and what might be done to ameliorate it.

Zusammenfassung
This book provides an historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and U.S. wage structure through the 20th century. During the first 80 years of the 20th century, the increase of educated workers was higher than demand for them. This boosted income for most and lowered inequality. The reverse has been true since about 1980.

Inhalt

*Introduction Part I: Economic Growth and Distribution *The Human Capital Century *Inequality across the Twentieth Century *Skill-biased Technological Change Part II: Education for the Masses in Three Transformations *The Origins of the Virtues *Economic Foundations of the High School Movement *America's Graduation from High School *Mass Higher Education in the Twentieth Century Part III. The Race *The Race between Education and Technology *How America Once Led and Can Win the Race for Tomorrow *Appendix A *Appendix B *Appendix C *Appendix D *Notes *References *A Note on Sources *Acknowledgments *Index