Human Capital in History : The American Record

America's expansion to one of the richest nations in the world was partly due to a steady increase in labor productivity, which in turn depends upon the invention and deployment of new technologies and on investments in both human and physical capital. The accumulation of human capital-the knowledge and skill of workers-has featured prominently in American economic leadership over the past two centuries. Human Capital in History brings together contributions from leading researchers in economic history, labor economics, the economics of education, and related fields. Building on Clau

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Boustan, Leah Platt
Other Persons:	Frydman, Carola (contributor) ; Margo, Robert A. (contributor)
Publisher:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Subject:	Humankapital \| Human capital \| Wirtschaftsgeschichte \| Economic history
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (419 p)
Series:	National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman, and Robert A. Margo; 1. Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective - Lawrence F. Katz and Robert A. Margo; 2. Explaining Trends in High School Graduation: The Changing Elementary and Secondary Education Policy Landscape and Income Inequality over the Last Half Century - Nora Gordon, Comment: Sarah J. Reber; 3. The Role of Immigrant Children in Their Parents' Assimilation in the United States, 1850-2010 - Ilyana Kuziemko and Joseph Ferrie 4. Health, Education, and Income in the United States, 1820-2000 - Hoyt Bleakley, Dora Costa, and Adriana Lleras-Muney5. The Female Labor Force and Long-Run Development: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective - Claudia Olivetti, Comment: Francine D. Blau; 6. The Origin and Persistence of Black-White Differences in Women's Labor Force Participation - Leah Platt Boustan and William J. Collins; 7. Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the United States, 1950-2010 - Shelly Lundberg and Robert A. Pollak 8. Is There a Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 US Fertility Decline - Martha J. Bailey, Melanie Guldi, and Brad J. Hershbein9. A Pollution Theory of Discrimination: Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings - Claudia Goldin, Comment: Cecilia Elena Rouse; 10. The Supply of Gender Stereotypes and Discriminatory Beliefs - Edward L. Glaeser and Yueran Ma; 11. Claudia Goldin - Stanley L. Engerman; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index
ISBN:	978-0-226-16389-5 ; 978-0-226-16392-5 ; 978-0-226-16389-5
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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