[lbo-talk] How much do college students...

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 2 14:04:51 PST 2011


On 2/2/2011 4:44 PM, David Green wrote:


> On 1/31/2011 3:25 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Can someone explain to me the relevance of Gordon's study to education,
> employment, or poverty? Can someone explain why I should supposedly believe that
> in a rich country in which productivity still increases steadily, that somehow
> that reflects a problem with what or how much students allegedly learn or know,
> as based on standardized tests? I don't mean these questions at all
> rhetorically. But what I draw from the data is that most Americans don't benefit
> from increased productivity, and that educational achievement literally pretty
> obviously has nothing to do with it.
>
> http://www.economicmobility.org/assets/pdfs/EMP_American_Dream_F6.pdf
>
> David Green

I don't really understand what you're asking. I didn't read the Gordon paper, but in the long run productivity growth requires the growth of skills. Most people are benefiting less than fully from productivity growth, productivity growth does depend in part on their skills.

SA



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