TY  - BOOK
AU  - Macunovich,Diane J.
TI  - Birth quake: the baby boom and its aftershocks 
T2  - Population and development
SN  - 9780226500928 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HB3505 .M33 2002eb
U1  - 304.6/2/2/0973 22
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Overpopulation
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Surpopulation
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Demography
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Baby boom
KW  - gtt
KW  - Sociaal-economische verandering
KW  - Demografische aspecten
KW  - United States
KW  - Population
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1945-
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Conditions économiques
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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