| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 314 pages) : charts. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Population and development
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Population and development (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-296) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; Overview: The Birth Quake and Its Aftershocks; Part 1. Defining Concepts and Terms; 1. Population Growth and Relative Cohort Size; 2. Male Relative Income and Its Significance; 3. Defining Variables: Relative Cohort Size and Relative Income; Part 2. First-Order Effects of Changing Relative Cohort Size; 4. Patterns of Male Relative Income over the Years; 5. First-Order Effects of Relative Cohort Size: Long-Term Trends in Unemployment, Relative Income, and Returns to College; 6. Effects of Relative Cohort Size on Inequality and the Overall Structure of Wages. |
| Summary |
Between 1965 and 1985, the Western world and the United States in particular experienced a staggering amount of social and economic change. In Birth Quake, Diane J. Macunovich argues that the common thread underlying all these changes was the post-World War II baby boom--in particular, the passage of the baby boomers into young adulthood. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Population -- History -- 20th century.
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United States. |
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Population. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
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Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1945- |
| Subject |
Overpopulation -- History -- 20th century.
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Overpopulation. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1900 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Macunovich, Diane J. Birth quake. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2002 9780226500836 (DLC) 2001052756 (OCoLC)48256185 |
| ISBN |
9780226500928 (electronic book) |
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0226500926 (electronic book) |
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0226500837 |
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9780226500836 |
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0226500837 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226500836 |
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