Education Intensity and the Sources of, and Prospects for, U.S. Economic Growth

We identify a new mechanism whereby education impacts economic growth: industry educational intensity. We define educational intensity as the share of an industry’s workforce with a college degree and above and use this new classification to build estimates of the sources of U.S. economic growth fro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dale Jorgenson, Mun Ho, Jon Samuels
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre for the Study of Living Standards 2019-04-01
Series:International Productivity Monitor
Subjects:
gdp
Online Access:http://www.csls.ca/ipm/36/Jorgenson_etal.pdf