Altonji, Joseph G.; Bharadwaj, Prashant; Lange, Fabian - In: Journal of Labor Economics 30 (2012) 4, pp. 783-783
We examine changes in the characteristics of American youth between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, with a focus on characteristics that matter for labor market success. The current generation is more skilled than the previous one. Blacks and Hispanics have gained relative to whites, and...