Bøker av James J. Heckman

"The GED and the Role of Character in American Life "offers in-depth historical and analytical explorations of how the GED came to be used on such a grand scale and why our reliance on it is so pernicious. For example, the main organization that administers the test, the American Council on Education, has for decades prevented the US Census from distinguishing GEDs from high-school graduates, and thus prevented honest evaluations of the GED s effectiveness. Also, due to a reliance on achievement tests and programs like No Child Left Behind, schools were given an incentive to encourage low-performing students to drop out and take the GED to get them off the books without penalty. So the GED program creates problems by inducing students to drop out of school, and it conceals major social problems by passing off GEDs as high-school graduates. The essays in this book definitively establish that, as a group, GEDs are not the equivalents of high-school graduates. The book explains statistically how most GEDs perform at the level of high-school dropouts in the labor market, in marriage, in the military, and in society at large. "

Analyzing the effects of regulation and deregulation on Latin American labor markets, Law and Employment joins the ongoing debate about the virtues and costs of legislating mandatory benefits for workers.