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Birth quake [electronic resource] :the baby boom and its aftershocks / Diane J. Macunovich.

By: Macunovich, Diane J.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Population and development (Chicago, Ill.): Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 314 p.) : charts.ISBN: 9780226500928 (electronic bk.); 0226500926 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): United States -- Population -- History -- 20th century | United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945- | Overpopulation -- History -- 20th century | Surpopulation -- Histoire -- 20e siècle | États-Unis -- Population -- Histoire -- 20e siècle | États-Unis -- Conditions économiques -- 1945- | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography | Baby boom | Sociaal-economische verandering | Demografische aspectenGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 304.6/2/2/0973 Online resources: EBSCOhost
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-296) and indexes.

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.

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.

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