Stemming Middle-Class Decline : the Challenges to Economic Development.
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Taylor and Francis,
1994
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Are Americans as Well-Off as We Used to Be?; Introduction; The Organization of This Book; 2 What Is Happening to Middle-Level Earners?; Defining the Middle-Earnings Segment; Dividing the Labor Force into Part- and Full-Time Earners; Worker Characteristics; The Nation's Changing Earnings Distribution, 1967 to 1987; Comparing the Part- and Full-Time Earnings Distributions by Gender and Race Groups; Comparison of Employee Benefits for Full- and Part-Time Earners in 1986.
- Educational Attainment among Full-Time EarnersConclusion; APPENDIX 2.A; APPENDIX 2.B; 3 The Middle Standard of Living; APPENDIX 3.A; 4 Industrial Restructuring's Influence on the Distribution of Earnings; The Debate over Structural Change; The Demographic Explanation; The Life-Cycle Explanation; The End of Growth; An Industrial Classification System; Defense and High-Technology Sectors; The Role of Comparative Advantage; Change in the Distribution of Earnings from 1967 to 1973, 1973 to 1979, and 1979 to 1987; Earnings Inequality among Full-Time Workers.
- Employment Shifts across Production SectorsGender and Race Distribution by Production Sector; Intertemporal Change in the Earnings Distribution by Production Sector; Full-Time Workers' Distribution of Earnings in High-Technology and Defense Sectors; High-Technology Sector; Defense Sector; Industries Gaining or Losing Trade Advantage; Conclusion; Appendix 4.A; A Nine-Sector Production Classification; APPENDIX 4.B; 5 The Rural and Urban Distinction in Industrial Restructuring; Introduction; The Rural Context; Shifting Employment Composition and the Earnings Distribution.
- Rural and Urban Change in Industrial CompositionChanges in the Pattern of Female Labor Force Participation; Change in the Distribution of Earnings within the Rural and Urban Economies, 1967-1973-1979-1987; By Earnings Group; Shifts in Inequality; Gender and Race Distinctions in the Rural and Urban Earnings Distributions; Full-Time Earners; Part-Time Earners; Fringe Benefit Recipiency among Full-Time Rural and Urban Earners, 1979 and 1987; Change in the Rural and Urban Full-Time Earnings Distributions by Production Sector; Rural and Urban Full-Time Earners in High Technology and Defense.
- Rural and Urban Earnings Distributions in Industries Gaining or Losing Trade AdvantageConclusion; 6 The Regional Implications of Industrial Restructuring; Introduction; Regional Distributions of Earnings; Regional Change in Industrial Composition; Changing Earnings Distributions in New York, Illinois, Texas, and California; New York; Illinois; Texas; California; Workers' Abilities to Attain a Middle Standard of Living in New York, Illinois, Texas, and California; Regional Variations in the Preeminent Middle-Class Consumption Item: The Cost and Rate of Home Ownership.
