Sunday, April 20, 2008

IS MANKIW A SHILL???

UPDATE: Via memeo, I found that Mark Thoma has more information about this issue.

Prof. Mankiw approvingly quotes 2 other economists on the rising wage inequality in the U.S. -

“the sharp rise in inequality was largely due to an educational slowdown.”

In the very same edition of the same paper, we learn that:

Even now, roughly 15 percent of college-educated workers find themselves in jobs for which they are overqualified, the Economic Policy Institute reports, and many of these jobs pay less than $20 an hour.

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