Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. I. The Macroeconomic Link between Education and Real GDP Growth
5. 1. Educational Attainment and the Revival of US Economic Growth 23
6. 2. The Outlook for US Labor- Quality Growth 61
7. 3. The Importance of Education and Skill Development for Economic Growth in the Information Era 115
8. II. Jobs and Skills Requirements
9. 4. Underemployment in the Early Careers of College Graduates following the Great Recession 149
10. 5. The Requirements of Jobs Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey 183
11. III. Skills, Inequality, and Polarization
12. 6. Noncognitive Skills as Human Capital 219
13. 7. Wage Inequality and Cognitive Skills Reopening the Debate 251
14. 8. Education and the Growth- Equity Trade- Off 293
15. 9. Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium Polarization, Skill Downgrading, or Both? 313
16. IV. The Supply of Skills
17. 10. Accounting for the Rise in College Tuition 357
18. 11. Online Postsecondary Education and Labor Productivity 401
19. 12. High-Skilled Immigration and the Rise of STEM Occupations in US Employment 465
20. Contributors 501
21. Author Index 505
22. Subject Index 513