Table of Contents:
  • I : BACKGROUND: Introduction / Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk
  • The trend in inequality among families, individuals, and workers in the United States : a twenty-five year perspective / Lynn A. Karoly
  • II : LABOR MARKET CHANGES AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF EARNINGS: Industrial change and the rising importance of skill / Kevin M. Murphy and Finis Welch
  • How much has de-unionization contributed to the rise in male earnings inequality? / Richard B. Freeman
  • III : DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF FAMILY INCOME: Family structure, family size, and family income : accounting for changes in the economic well-being of children, 1968-1986 / Peter Gottschalk and Sheldon Danziger
  • Working wives and family income inequality among married couples / Maria Cancian, Sheldon Danziger, and Peter Gottschalk
  • IV : PUBLIC POLICY CHANGES AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF FAMILY INCOME: Growing inequality in the 1980s : the role of federal taxes and cash transfers / Edward M. Gramlich, Richard Kasten, and Frank Sammartino
  • The minimum wage and earnings and income inequality / Michael W. Horrigan and Ronald B. Mincy.