Research Catalog

Back to shared prosperity : the growing inequality of wealth and income in America

Title
Back to shared prosperity : the growing inequality of wealth and income in America / Ray Marshall, editor.
Publication
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2000], ©2000.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?
TextRequest in advance HC106.82 .B33 2000Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
Marshall, F. Ray.
Description
xiii, 423 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Subject
  • Income distribution > United States
  • United States > Economic conditions > 1981-2001
  • United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020
  • United States > Economic policy > 1993-2001
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Overview: Back to Shared Prosperity: The Growing Inequality of Wealth and Income in America / Ray Marshall -- Pt. I. Introduction: Opportunity in America. 1. Recent Trends in the Distribution of Household Wealth / Edward N. Wolff. 2. The Effects of Economic Growth and Inequality on Opportunity / Daniel P. McMurrer and Isabel V. Sawhill. 3. Economic Outcomes and Mental Health / Mary Merva and Richard Fowles. 4. One More Chance: Cities in the Twenty-first Century Economy / Elliott Sclar. 5. Jobless Ghettos: The Social Implications of the Disappearance of Work in Segregated Neighborhoods / William J. Wilson. 6. The Labor Market for Young African-American Men: Recent Trends, Causes, and Implications / Harry J. Holzer. 7. Including Latinos in Broadly Shared Prosperity / Jorge Chapa. 8. Crime and Prosperity: Neighborhood Explanations for Change in Crime Rates / William Spelman. 9. Closing the Gap: Women's Economic Progress and Future Prospects / Heidi Hartmann --
  • Pt. II. Forces for Change: Technology, Globalization, and Demographics. 10. The Workplace Implications of Global Technological Advance / Robert M. White and Richard H. White. 11. The Networked Economy / Daniel F. Burton, Jr. 12. Globalization of Financial Markets / Jane W. D'Arista. 13. Why the Baby-Bust Cohorts Haven't Boomed Yet: A Re-Examination of Cohort Effects on Wage Inequality in the United States / Diane J. Macunovich. 14. Social and Political Impacts of Recent Trends in U.S. Immigration / Michael S. Teitelbaum -- Pt. III. Policies to Restore Shared Prosperity. 15. What Can Macro-Policy Do? / Robert M. Solow. 16. Budgets and Taxes / Robert Eisner. 17. Social Security: A New Deal Program for the Twenty-first Century / Dean Baker. 18. Pension Policies to Maintain Workers' Access to Retirement / Teresa Ghilarducci. 19. Public Investment for a Twenty-first Century Economy / Jeff Faux. 20. Trade and Inequality / Thea Lee.
  • 21. Schooling, Learning, and Economic Growth / Mark R. Rosenzweig. 22. How the United States Can Develop a World-Class Education System / Marc Tucker. 23. Transition from School to Work: Black, Hispanic, and White Men in the 1980s / Avner Ahituv, Marta Tienda and V. Joseph Hotz. 24. Wages and the Service Sector / Lester Thurow. 25. A Thirty-Five-Year Perspective on Workforce Development Programs / Garth Mangum. 26. Public Labor Market Policies for the Twenty-first Century / Christopher T. King, Robert E. McPherson and Donald W. Long. 27. Public Service Employment: A Look Back and a Look Ahead / Eli Ginzberg. 28. Public Service Employment: Lessons from U.S. Experience in the 1970s / Richard P. Nathan. 29. Employer Training: The High Road, the Low Road, and the Muddy Middle Path / Anthony P. Carnevale and Donna M. Desrochers. 30. Health Care for Low-Income People / Karen Davis. 31. Reconstructing the Social Contract in Employment Relations / Thomas A. Kochan.
  • 32. Employee Involvement and Representation: Economic and Policy Implications / Paula Voos. 33. Financial Market Barriers to High-Performance Work Organizations / Eileen Appelbaum and Peter Berg. 34. Restoring Broadly Shared Prosperity: A Business Perspective / Thomas J. Usher. 35. Justice at the Gates of the City: A Model for Shared Prosperity / Ernesto Cortes, Jr. 36. Access to Capital and Inner-City Revitalization: Urban Policy After Proposition 209 / Gary A. Dymski. 37. The U.S. Rural Economy in Historical and Global Context / William Galston. 38. Prosperity and Inequality Among America's Cities and Regions / Norman J. Glickman.
ISBN
  • 0765604248 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0765604256 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
99011649
OCLC
ocm40631745
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries