Working and poor: how economic and policy changes are affecting low-wage workers

Introduction: Work and poverty during the past quarter-century / Rebecca M. Blank, Sheldon H. Danziger, Robert F. Schoeni

pt. I: What is changing in the labor market for low-skilled workers, and why? 1. Exploring gender differences in employment and wage trends among less-skilled workers / Rebecca M. Blank, Heidi Shierholz

2. Wage trends among disadvantaged minorities / George J. Borjas

pt. II: How do economic trends affect less-skilled workers? 3. The macroeconomy and determinants of the earnings of less-skilled workers / Robert E. Hall

4. The impact of technological change on low-wage workers : a review / David Card, John DiNardo

5. The changing pattern of wage growth for low-skilled workers / Eric French, Bhashkar Mazumder, Christopher Taber

pt. III: How do macroeconomic changes influence well-being measures beyond income? 6. The level and composition of consumption over the business cycle : the role of "quasi-fixed" expenditures / Kerwin Kofi Charles, Melvin Stephens Jr.

7. Recent trends in resource sharing among the poor / Steven J. Haider, Kathleen McGarry

8. Economic conditions and children's living arrangements / Rebecca A. London, Robert W. Fairlie

pt. IV: How do policy changes interact with the economy and economic well-being? 9. How do tax policies affect low-income workers? / Kevin A. Hassett, Anne Moore

10. State spending on social assistance programs over the business cycle / Therese J. McGuire, David F. Merriman

11.Temporary agency employment : a way out of poverty? / David Autor, Susan Houseman

12. Child support and the economy / Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer

13. Unemployment insurance over the business cycle : Does it meet the needs of less-skilled workers? / Phillip B. Levine

14. How is health insurance affected by the economy? : public and private coverage among low-skilled adults in the 1990s / Helen Levy.