- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Editor's Preface
- Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969
-
1 From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality -
2 Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality -
3 Measuring Poverty -
4 Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty -
5 The Dynamic Racial Composition of the United States -
6 The New Geography of Inequality in Urban America -
7 The Disparate Racial Neighborhood Impacts of Metropolitan Economic Restructuring -
8 The Demise of a Dinosaur -
9 Suburban Exclusion and the Courts -
10 Civil Rights and the Status of Black Americans in the 1960s and the 1990s -
11 Poverty, Racism, and Migration -
12 The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty -
13 U.S. Education and Training Policy -
14 The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination -
15 Escalating Differences and Elusive “Skills” -
16 Earnings of Black and White Youth and Their Relation to Poverty -
17 Teenage Childbearing and Personal Responsibility -
18 Where Should Teen Mothers Live? What Should We Do About It? -
19 Family Allowances and Poverty Among Lone Mother Families in the United States -
20 How Much More Can They Work? -
21 Turning Our Backs on the New Deal -
22 Fighting Poverty -
23 Crime, Poverty, and Entrepreneurship -
24 Violence and the Inner-City Street Code -
25 Minority Business Development Programs -
26 A Social Accounting Matrix Model of Inner-City New Haven - Contributors
- Index
The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination
The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination
- Chapter:
- (p.405) 14 The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination
- Source:
- Race, Poverty, and Domestic Policy
- Author(s):
Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett
Frank Levy
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter discusses the importance of cognitive skills in wage determination. It examines two large surveys of twenty-four-year-old high school graduates to show that cognitive skills were a significantly more important predictor of real wages in 1986 than in 1978. In this survey, the mathematics test score was used as a measure of cognitive skills. The chapter also discusses the effects of family background and educational attainment on wage patterns.
Keywords: cognitive skills, wage determination, wages, mathematics, family background, educational attainment, wage patterns
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Editor's Preface
- Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969
-
1 From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality -
2 Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality -
3 Measuring Poverty -
4 Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty -
5 The Dynamic Racial Composition of the United States -
6 The New Geography of Inequality in Urban America -
7 The Disparate Racial Neighborhood Impacts of Metropolitan Economic Restructuring -
8 The Demise of a Dinosaur -
9 Suburban Exclusion and the Courts -
10 Civil Rights and the Status of Black Americans in the 1960s and the 1990s -
11 Poverty, Racism, and Migration -
12 The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty -
13 U.S. Education and Training Policy -
14 The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination -
15 Escalating Differences and Elusive “Skills” -
16 Earnings of Black and White Youth and Their Relation to Poverty -
17 Teenage Childbearing and Personal Responsibility -
18 Where Should Teen Mothers Live? What Should We Do About It? -
19 Family Allowances and Poverty Among Lone Mother Families in the United States -
20 How Much More Can They Work? -
21 Turning Our Backs on the New Deal -
22 Fighting Poverty -
23 Crime, Poverty, and Entrepreneurship -
24 Violence and the Inner-City Street Code -
25 Minority Business Development Programs -
26 A Social Accounting Matrix Model of Inner-City New Haven - Contributors
- Index
