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Working and poor : how economic and policy changes are affecting low-wage workers
- Title
- Working and poor : how economic and policy changes are affecting low-wage workers / Rebecca M. Blank, Sheldon H. Danziger, and Robert F. Schoeni, editors.
- Publication
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2006], ©2006.
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- Description
- vii, 436 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- National Poverty Center series on poverty and public policy
- Uniform Title
- National Poverty Center series on poverty and public policy.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : work and poverty during the past quarter-century / Rebecca M. Blank, Sheldon H. Danziger and Robert F. Schoeni -- Pt. I. What is changing in the labor market for low-skilled workers, and why? -- Ch. 1. Exploring gender differences in employment and wage trends among less-skilled workers / Rebecca M. Blank and Heidi Shierholz -- Ch. 2. Wage trends among disadvantaged minorities / George J. Borjas -- Pt. II. How do economic trends affect less-skilled workers? -- Ch. 3. The macroeconomy and determinants of the earnings of less-skilled workers / Robert E. Hall -- Ch. 4. The impact of technological change on low-wage workers : a review / David Card and John DiNardo -- Ch. 5. The changing pattern of wage growth for low-skilled workers / Eric French, Bhashkar Mazumder and Christopher Taber -- Pt. III. How do macroeconomic changes influence well-being measures beyond income? -- Ch. 6. The level and composition of consumption over the business cycle : the role of "quasi-fixed" expenditures / Kerwin Kofi Charles and Melvin Stephens, Jr. -- Ch. 7. Recent trends in resource sharing among the poor / Steven J. Haider and Kathleen McGarry -- Ch. 8. Economic conditions and children's living arrangements / Rebecca A. London and Robert W. Fairlie -- Pt. IV. How do policy changes interact with the economy and economic well-being? -- Ch. 9. How do tax policies affect low-income workers? / Kevin A. Hassett and Anne Moore -- Ch. 10. State spending on social assistance programs over the business cycle / Therese J. McGuire and David F. Merriman -- Ch. 11. Temporary agency employment : a way out of poverty? / David Autor and Susan Houseman -- Ch. 12. Child support and the economy / Maria Cancian and Daniel R. Meyer -- Ch. 13. Unemployment insurance over the business cycle : does it meet the needs of less-skilled workers? / Phillip B. Levine -- Ch. 14. How is health insurance affected by the economy? : public and private coverage among low-skilled adults in the 1990s / Helen Levy.
- ISBN
- 0871540754
- 9780871540751
- LCCN
- 2006018385
- 9780871540751
- OCLC
- ocm70149222
- SCSB-5924668
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries