Autor: Katz Lawrence F. Katz

During the past two decades, wages of skilled workers in the United States rose while those of unskilled workers fell; less-educated young men in particular have suffered unprecedented losses in real …

Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during the past three decades, despite …

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, …

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 …