Continuing education, job training, and the growth of earnings inequality.
Although it is well established that changes in the value of formal education can partly explain the increase in earnings inequality in the United States during the past three decades, less attention has been paid to the possible role of post-school training. Using data from cohorts of the National...
| Published in: | Industrial & Labor Relations Review Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 602 - 624 |
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Cornell University
July 2000
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