What has happened to the quality of life in the advanced industrialized nations?, edited by Edward N. Wolff
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What has happened to the quality of life in the advanced industrialized nations?, edited by Edward N. Wolff
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
What has happened to the quality of life in the advanced industrialized nations?
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bibliography
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53021725
Responsibility statement
edited by Edward N. Wolff
Table Of Contents
Recent trends in living standards in the United States / Edward N. Wolff -- Using expenditures to measure the standard of living in the United States : does it make a difference? / David S. Johnson -- Who has benefited from economic growth in the United States since 1969? The case of children / Christopher Jencks, Susan E. Mayer and Joseph Swingle -- Reassessing the consumer price index : five years after the Boskin Commission / Dean Baker -- Has economic well-being improved in Canada and the United States? / Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe -- Comparing living standards across nations : real incomes at the top, the bottom, and the middle / Timothy M. Smeeding and Lee Rainwater -- Race, home ownership, and family structure in twentieth-century America / William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo -- Living standard potential and the transmission of advantage in Chile / Seymour Spilerman and Florencia Torche -- Historical perspective on the standard of living using anthropometric data / Richard H. Steckel -- Time intensity and well-being : what we can learn from time-use data / Thomas L. Hungerford and Maria S. Floro -- Measuring worker rights and labor strength in the advanced economies / Robert Buchele and Jens Christiansen -- Measuring quality of life with local indicators / Daphne T. Greenwood
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