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Title: Ability, Educational Ranks, and Labor Market Trends: The Effects of Shifts in the Skill Composition of Educational Groups

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Publication Year: 2000

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Abstract: Large increases in educational attainment have resulted in dramatic shifts in the composition of educational groups. Utilizing the 1960-1990 Decennial Census and other data sources, I account for these changes in composition using educational ranks cohort-specific relative rankings in educational attainment. For native white males between 1969 and 1989 accounting for changes in the composition of educational groups (1) explains about half of the increase in the college/high school weekly earnings differential, (2) results in increases in weekly earnings for the less educated, and (3) doubles the increases in experience differentials for high school less educated. These findings raise questions about the common research strategy of using educational groups as a proxy for skill groups over long periods of time.

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Authors: Rosenbaum, Dan T.

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Institution: University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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Publisher Location: Greensboro, NC

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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