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- catalog abstract "The 1980s witnessed an unprecedented rise in inequality and poverty in the USA, despite a sustained expansion, which raises concerns about the appropriate policy actions needed to offset it. The papers collected in this volume explore the differing aspects of this problem such as the shrinkage of the middle class, the growing intergenerational wealth gap, the widening of the earnings gap between the college-educated and the high-school graduate, and the increasing dispersion of the distribution of family income, despite the increased labor force participation of women. The contributors also discuss the measurement issues involved in defining the poverty status, considering the earnings capacity, the health status and other more direct indicators of the living conditions of families.".
- catalog contributor b5685133.
- catalog contributor b5685134.
- catalog coverage "United States Economic conditions 1981-2001.".
- catalog coverage "United States Economic policy 1981-1993.".
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The 1980s witnessed an unprecedented rise in inequality and poverty in the USA, despite a sustained expansion, which raises concerns about the appropriate policy actions needed to offset it. The papers collected in this volume explore the differing aspects of this problem such as the shrinkage of the middle class, the growing intergenerational wealth gap, the widening of the earnings gap between the college-educated and the high-school graduate, and the increasing dispersion of the distribution of family income, despite the increased labor force participation of women. The contributors also discuss the measurement issues involved in defining the poverty status, considering the earnings capacity, the health status and other more direct indicators of the living conditions of families.".
- catalog description "Why were poverty rates so high in the 1980s? / Rebecca M. Blank -- Who are the truly poor? Patterns of official and net earnings capacity poverty, 1973-88 / Robert Haveman and Larry Buron -- The health, earnings capacity, and poverty of single-mother families / Barbara L. Wolfe and Steven Hill -- Recent trends in economic inequality in the United States : income versus expenditures versus material well-being / Susan E. Mayer and Christopher Jencks -- Social Security annuities and transfers : distributional and tax implications / Edward N. Wolff -- W(h)ither the middle class? A dynamic view / Greg J. Duncan, Timothy M. Smeeding and Willard Rodgers -- Changes in earnings differentials in the 1980s : concordance, convergence, causes, and consequences / McKinley L. Blackburn, David E. Bloom and Richard B. Freeman -- The changing contributions of men and women to the level and distribution of family income, 1968-88 / Maria Cancian, Sheldon Danziger, and Peter Gottschalk -- Policy forum : prospects for future policy / Robert B. Avery [and others].".
- catalog extent "xv, 390 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0312094736".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Economic conditions 1981-2001.".
- catalog spatial "United States Economic policy 1981-1993.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "330.973/092 20".
- catalog subject "HC110.P6 P594 1993".
- catalog subject "Income distribution United States.".
- catalog subject "Poor United States.".
- catalog subject "Poverty United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Why were poverty rates so high in the 1980s? / Rebecca M. Blank -- Who are the truly poor? Patterns of official and net earnings capacity poverty, 1973-88 / Robert Haveman and Larry Buron -- The health, earnings capacity, and poverty of single-mother families / Barbara L. Wolfe and Steven Hill -- Recent trends in economic inequality in the United States : income versus expenditures versus material well-being / Susan E. Mayer and Christopher Jencks -- Social Security annuities and transfers : distributional and tax implications / Edward N. Wolff -- W(h)ither the middle class? A dynamic view / Greg J. Duncan, Timothy M. Smeeding and Willard Rodgers -- Changes in earnings differentials in the 1980s : concordance, convergence, causes, and consequences / McKinley L. Blackburn, David E. Bloom and Richard B. Freeman -- The changing contributions of men and women to the level and distribution of family income, 1968-88 / Maria Cancian, Sheldon Danziger, and Peter Gottschalk -- Policy forum : prospects for future policy / Robert B. Avery [and others].".
- catalog title "Poverty and prosperity in the USA in the late twentieth century / edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Edward N. Wolff.".
- catalog type "text".