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The Risk of Unemployment among Disadvantaged and Advantaged Male Workers, 1968-2003

June 1, 2010
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Benjamin Keys and Sheldon Danziger, University of Michigan
Over the last three decades, structural changes in the American labor market eliminated many highly‐paid, stable jobs that had previously been available to workers with a high school diploma or less. Job security is important, particularly for the...
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Changing Poverty and Changing Antipoverty Policies

June 1, 2010
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Maria Cancian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Sheldon Danziger, University of Michigan
Since the early 1970s, dramatic changes in the economy, demographic composition of the population and in public policies have combined to reduce the antipoverty effects of economic growth. Because economic growth is now necessary, but not...