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Birth quake : the baby boom and its aftershocks /

Between 1965 and 1985, the Western world and the United States in particular experienced a staggering amount of social and economic change. In Birth Quake, Diane J. Macunovich argues that the common thread underlying all these changes was the post-World War II baby boom--in particular, the passage o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Macunovich, Diane J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2002.
Colección:Population and development (Chicago, Ill.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface; Acknowledgments; Overview: The Birth Quake and Its Aftershocks; Part 1. Defining Concepts and Terms; 1. Population Growth and Relative Cohort Size; 2. Male Relative Income and Its Significance; 3. Defining Variables: Relative Cohort Size and Relative Income; Part 2. First-Order Effects of Changing Relative Cohort Size; 4. Patterns of Male Relative Income over the Years; 5. First-Order Effects of Relative Cohort Size: Long-Term Trends in Unemployment, Relative Income, and Returns to College; 6. Effects of Relative Cohort Size on Inequality and the Overall Structure of Wages.