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974939
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b729309
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What has happened to the quality of life in the advanced industrialized nations? /\ edited by Edward N. Wolff.
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| Publication Statement
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Cheltenham, UK ;Northhampton, MA :: Edward Elgar,, ©2004.
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1 online resource (xxxii, 392 pages) :: illustrations
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1283217074
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: 1845420527
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: 9781283217071
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: 9781845420529
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"In association with the Levy Economics Institute."
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"This volume is part of the Institute's research on 'Measuring Well-being'"--Page [ii].
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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The contributors to this volume investigate to what extent welfare has increased in the United States over the postwar period and provide a rigorous examination of both conventional measures of the standard of living, as well as more inclusive indices. The chapters cover such topics as: race, home ownership and family structure; the status of children; the consumer price index; a historical perspective on the standard of living; worker rights and labor strength in advanced economies. In addition, they explore two economic systems delivering the goods--the free enterprise system of the United States and the European social welfare state. They then present international comparisons and highlight the relative advantages and disadvantages of these two systems.
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Cost and standard of living.
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Economic indicators.
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Employee rights.
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Income distribution.
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Quality of life-- Measurement.
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Quality of life-- Developed countries.
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Quality of life-- United States.
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Cost and standard of living.
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Economic indicators.
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Employee rights.
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Income distribution.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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Quality of life-- Measurement.
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Quality of life.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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Developed countries.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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306/.0973
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HN25.W53 2004eb
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Wolff, Edward N.
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Jerome Levy Economics Institute.
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