Skills and Earnings in the Full-Time Labor Market. The Impact of Human Capital in the American Labor Market Series / Neeta Fogg, Paul Harrington and Ishwar Khatiwada.

This paper is the first in a series of policy reports dealing with the impact of human capital investments on the U.S. labor market. It is part of a larger series of papers from the ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education that uses data from the "Programme for the International A...

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Main Authors: Fogg, Neeta, Harrington, Paul (Author), Khatiwada, Ishwar (Author)
Corporate Authors: Educational Testing Service (ETS), Center for Research on Human Capital and Education, Educational Testing Service. Center for Research on Human Capital and Education
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Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2018.
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