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100 1 $aPryor, Frederic L.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50020111
245 10 $aWho's not working and why :$bemployment, cognitive skills, wages, and the changing U.S. labor market /$cFrederic L. Pryor and David L. Schaffer.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1999.
300 $axiii, 300 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 280-291) and indexes.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Changing Labor Market --$g2.$tCognitive Skills, Education, and Other Determinants of Employment --$g3.$tUpskilling and Educational Upgrading of Occupations --$g4.$tLabor Force Displacement Mechanisms --$g5.$tWage Levels --$g6.$tThe Distribution of Hourly Wages --$g7.$tFive Misleading Theories about Joblessness --$g8.$tNotes on Subjective and Institutional Factors --$g9.$tFinal Observations --$gApp. 1.1.$tThe Current Population Survey Data --$gApp. 1.2.$tUnemployment and Labor Force Non-Participation of the Prime-Age Population --$gApp. 1.3.$tDeterminants of Employment in 1971 and 1994 --$gApp. 2.1.$tThe Data from the National Adult Literacy Survey --$gApp. 2.2.$tNotes on the Education Variable in the Current Population Survey --$gApp. 3.1.$tImputing 1994-95 Census Occupation Codes for the March 1971 and 1972 CPS Samples --$gApp. 3.2.$tBiases in the Data on Occupations --$gApp. 3.3.$tSkill Ratings and Structural Changes in Skills --$gApp. 3.4.$tOccupational Deskilling by Educational Tier --
505 80 $gApp. 3.5.$tMore Data on Years of Education and Occupation of Prime-Age Workers --$gApp. 4.1.$tMore Data on years of Education and Occupation of Prime-age Workers --$gApp. 4.2.$tUsing the Biproportional Matrix Technique for Decomposition --$gApp. 4.3.$tFurther Decomposition of the Structural Changes --$gApp. 5.1.$tMore Data on Median Hourly Wages --$gApp. 5.2.$tEstimating Hourly Wage Data --$gApp. 5.3.$tThe Impact of Other Cognitive Skills on Wages --$gApp. 5.4.$tWage Regressions at Different Points in Time --$gApp. 6.1.$tMore Charts on Wage Distributions --$gApp. 7.1.$tThe Impact of Immigration on the Employment of Native-Born Workers --$gApp. 8.1.$tDeterminants of Hiring Criteria and of Labor Force Composition.
520 $aOver the Last Quarter-Century, the U.S. labor market has experienced some disturbing trends. Despite apparent economic prosperity, joblessness among less-educated prime-age males is rising and, in addition, an increasing number of university graduates are taking "high-school jobs." Moreover, except for a thin layer of university-educated workers, most in the labor force are experiencing stagnating or falling real wages. Simultaneously, the inequality of wages is increasing within most groups.
520 8 $aUsing an entirely new approach that takes account of the cognitive skills of U.S. workers and the detailed occupational structure of the labor force, Frederic L. Pryor and David L. Schaffer explore the underlying causes of these trends. To explain both employment and wages, they demonstrate that what a worker knows is becoming increasingly more important than a worker's formal education.
520 8 $aThey also present evidence that because of differences in wages between men and women, women are replacing men in many occupations. Finally, they synthesize these and other labor market characteristics to explain the increasing inequality of wages. The authors have written this empirical study in non-technical language for those concerned with labor market problems and policies. For specialists they analyze a variety of technical issues in the appendices.
650 0 $aLabor market$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106397
650 0 $aSkilled labor$xSupply and demand$zUnited States.
650 0 $aLife skills$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076846
650 0 $aCognitive learning$zUnited States.
650 0 $aWages$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113323
700 1 $aSchaffer, David L.,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98069461
852 00 $boff,bus$hHD5724$i.P78 1999