Who's Not Working and Why: Employment, Cognitive Skills, Wages, and the Changing U.S. Labor Market

ISBN-13: 9780521794398 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 316 str.

Frederic L. Pryor; David L. Schaffer

Opis

This book presents a view of the operations of the labor market totally different from the conventional wisdom. The authors present data showing on one hand that jobs requiring a high level of education are increasing more slowly than those requiring somewhat fewer educational credentials. On the other hand, these jobs requiring less education are increasing faster than those requiring still less formal education. Additionally, Professors Pryor and Schaffer show how women are replacing men in jobs requiring higher levels of education. Using these insights the authors also explain why wages have become more unequal, why wages in those jobs requiring extra-high cognitive skills have risen and why all other wages have stagnated or fallen in the past quarter century.

Recenzje

"In this ingenious and important book, Pryor and Schaffer attempt to make sense of observations about resent U.S. history. Part of what makes their treatment ingenious is the fact that they supplement the Current Population Survey, the customary source in this sort of inquiry, with data on cognitive capacities from the National Adult Literacy Survey, which contain information on both language and quantitative skills." Canada Review of Sociology Anthropology

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. The changing labor market; Part II. Employment, Cognitive Skills, and Job Displacement: 2. Cognitive skills, education, and other determinants of employment; 3. Upskilling and educational upgrading of occupations; 4. Labor force displacement mechanisms; Part III. Wage Levels and Distribution: 5. Wage levels; 6. The Distribution of Hourly Wages; Part IV. Alternative Approaches: 7. Five misleading theories about joblessness; 8. Notes on subjective and institutional factors; Part V. Implications and Interpretations: 9. Final observations; Appendices; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index.