Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes Are Affecting Low-Wage Workers

Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes Are Affecting Low-Wage Workers

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Format:  Hardback
Pages:  436
Publisher:  Russell Sage Foundation
Year:  2006
ISBN:  9780871540751

Over the last three decades, large-scale economic developments, such as technological change, the decline in unionization, and changing skill requirements, have exacted their biggest toll on low-wage workers. These workers often possess few marketable skills and few resources with which to support themselves during periods of economic transition. In this book a group of economists and policy experts examine how economic and policy changes over the last twenty-five years have affected the well-being of low-wage workers and their families. This book explores every facet of the economic well-being of less-skilled workers, from employment and earnings opportunities to consumption behavior and social assistance policies.

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