What Has Happened to the Quality of Life in the Advanced Industrialized Nations?Edward N. Wolff, Jerome Levy Economics Institute Although per capita income in the United States outstripped that in other developed countries during the 1990s, it is questionable if the levels of welfare services that it provides to its citizens has kept pace. This study examines how the standard of li |
Contents
1 Recent trends in living standards in the United States | 3 |
does it make a difference? | 27 |
3 Who has benefited from economic growth in the United States since 1969? The case of children | 48 |
five years after the Boskin Commission | 81 |
5 Has economic wellbeing improved in Canada and the United States? | 123 |
real incomes at the top the bottom and the middle | 153 |
7 Race home ownership and family structure in twentiethcentury America | 187 |
8 Living standard potential and the transmission of advantage in Chile | 214 |
9 Historical perspective on the standard of living using anthropometric data | 257 |
what we can learn from timeuse data | 275 |
11 Measuring worker rights and labor strength in the advanced economies | 311 |
12 Measuring quality of life with local indicators | 334 |
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adjusted analysis assets average Bard College bias Boskin Boskin Commission Bureau of Labor Canada Census cent changes child Chile consumer price index cost cost-of-living index countries CPI-U CPI-U-RS decline earnings economic well-being educational attainment effects employment equivalence scale equivalent income estimates example factors family income Figure GDP per capita Genuine progress indicator Gini coefficient growth home ownership household heads household income human capital impact Income and Wealth income distribution income quintile increase indicators individuals IPUMS Jacksonville Labor Statistics living standards measure median nations noncash OECD Osberg overall overlapping activities parental wealth percentage points person Pleasant nonwork population poverty rate PPPs quality-of-life racial gap rate of inflation ratio real income relative reported respondent's sample Slesnick Smeeding social standard of living Statistics Canada status Steckel Survey Table tion trends United United Kingdom Unpleasant variables wages weight worker rights