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Article: U.S. economic mobility.(Divergent Paths: Economic Mobility in the New American Labor Market)(Book Review)
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- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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Divergent Paths: Economic Mobility in the New American Labor Market. By Annette Bernhardt, Martina Morris, Mark S. Handcock, and Marc A. Scott. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2001, 244 pp.
Labor economists and public policy analysts have noticed a disturbing trend over the past 2 decades--the decline in real earnings of certain demographic groups. Specifically, cross-sectional data from the Current Population Survey show that the inflation-adjusted earnings of males have declined since the early 1970s, while the earnings of women have risen. The authors of Divergent Paths seek to explain the paradox of declining real earnings coinciding with a nearly ...