Education, Skills, and Technical Change : Implications for Future US GDP Growth

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Hulten, Charles R. / Ramey, Valerie A. -- I. The Macroeconomic Link between Education and Real GDP Growth -- 1. Educational Attainment and the Revival of US Economic Growth / Jorgenson, Dale W. / Ho, Mun S. / Samuels, Jon D. -- 2. The Outlook for US Labor- Quality Growth / Bosler, Canyon / Daly, Mary C. / Fernald, John G. / Hobijn, Bart -- 3. The Importance of Education and Skill Development for Economic Growth in the Information Era / Hulten, Charles R. -- II. Jobs and Skills Requirements -- 4. Underemployment in the Early Careers of College Graduates following the Great Recession / Abel, Jaison R. / Deitz, Richard -- 5. The Requirements of Jobs Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey / Gittleman, Maury / Monaco, Kristen / Nestoriak, Nicole -- III. Skills, Inequality, and Polarization -- 6. Noncognitive Skills as Human Capital / Lundberg, Shelly -- 7. Wage Inequality and Cognitive Skills Reopening the Debate / Broecke, Stijn / Quintini, Glenda / Vandeweyer, Marieke -- 8. Education and the Growth- Equity Trade- Off / Hanushek, Eric A. -- 9. Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium Polarization, Skill Downgrading, or Both? / Valletta, Robert G. -- IV. The Supply of Skills -- 10. Accounting for the Rise in College Tuition / Gordon, Grey / Hedlund, Aaron -- 11. Online Postsecondary Education and Labor Productivity / Hoxby, Caroline M. -- 12. High-Skilled Immigration and the Rise of STEM Occupations in US Employment / Hanson, Gordon H. / Slaughter, Matthew J. -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index