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What has happened to the quality of life in the advanced industrialized nations? /

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What has happened to the quality of life in the advanced industrialized nations? /

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edited by Edward N. Wolff.

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Northhampton, MA :

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Edward Elgar,

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©2004.

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1 online resource (xxxii, 392 pages) :

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illustrations

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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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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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What has happened to the quality of life in the advanced industrialized nations?.

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1843761939

Cost and standard of living.

Economic indicators.

Employee rights.

Income distribution.

Quality of life-- Developed countries.

Quality of life-- Measurement.

Quality of life-- United States.

Cost and standard of living.

Economic indicators.

Employee rights.

Income distribution.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.

Quality of life-- Measurement.

Quality of life.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.

Developed countries.

United States.

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Wolff, Edward N.

Jerome Levy Economics Institute.

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