Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the "other 99 percent"

The singular focus of public debate on the “top 1 percent” of households overlooks the component of earnings inequality that is arguably most consequential for the “other 99 percent” of citizens: the dramatic growth in the wage premium associated with higher education and cognitive ability. This Rev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Autor, David H.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96768
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-9381