The new dollars and dreams : American incomes and economic change /

The New Dollars and Dreams explores today's puzzling economic landscape, in which low unemployment goes hand in hand with sluggish wage growth and high income inequality. This book offers an invaluable guide to the sweeping economic, social, and political changes that have remade life in the Un...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levy, Frank, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©1998.
Colección:Russell Sage Foundation Census Series.
Temas:
1981-2001
Income distribution > United States.
Income > United States.
Revenu > Répartition > États-Unis.
Revenu > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Economic history.
Income.
Income distribution.
Einkommensverteilung
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
United States > Economic conditions > 1981-2001.
États-Unis > Conditions économiques > 1981-2001.
United States.
USA.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A half century of incomes
  • Beginning again: the U.S. economy in the late 1940s
  • Economic change, government policy, and the evolution of living standards
  • Industrial change: is there life after the service sector?
  • Occupational change: can the economy still produce good jobs and, if so, who gets them?
  • The geography of income
  • Households, families, and the welfare state
  • What comes next?

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