The college wage premium roughly doubled between the late 1970s and the 2000s.

Evidence

While college graduates earned 30% more than other workers in the late 1970s, the premium doubled over the next few decades ðGoldin and Katz 2007Þ. — Ken-Hou Lin & Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Financialization and U.S. Income…, 32

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: US income inequality roughly doubled between 1980 and 2007. — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 59; The wage premium for digital skills nearly doubled between 2002 and 2016 — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2166

Related

• The wage premium for digital skills nearly doubled between 2002 and 2016 (similarity 0.89)
• US income inequality roughly doubled between 1980 and 2007. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The wage premium for digital skills nearly doubled between 2002 and 2016 #epitomizes (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2166