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Tables of Contents for The State of Working America, 2002/2003
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
Executive Summary
3
10
Introduction: What kind of recovery?
13
16
Documentation and Methodology
29
4
Family Income: full employment reverses historic stagnation
33
80
Median income: slow recovery, then strong gains
35
5
Latter 1990s pay off for less-advantaged family types
40
3
An income `generation gap'
43
5
Strong growth among dual-earner couples and single mothers
48
3
Growing inequality of family income
51
5
Counterarguments to the evidence on income trends
56
27
Are taxes the reason for rising inequality and disappointing growth in family incomes?
58
10
Is the increase in inequality sensitive to income definitions?
68
7
The role of mobility and demographics
75
8
Growth in inequality narrows pathways to prosperity
83
3
Expanding capital incomes
86
8
The impact of low unemployment on family income growth
94
3
The `time crunch': married-couple families with children working harder than ever
97
16
Wages: broad-based gains in late 1990s
113
104
Contrasting hours and hourly wage growth
116
3
Contrasting compensation and wage growth
119
2
Wages by occupation
121
6
Wage trends by wage level
127
6
Shifts in low-wage jobs
133
8
Trends in benefit growth and inequality
141
7
Explaining wage inequality
148
8
Productivity and the compensation/productivity gap
156
2
Rising education/wage differentials
158
5
Young workers' wages
163
2
The importance of within-group wage inequality
165
5
Wage growth by race and ethnicity
170
1
The gender wage gap
171
1
Unemployment and wage growth
172
4
The shift to low-paying industries
176
5
Trade and wages
181
8
The union dimension
189
7
An eroded minimum wage
196
7
The technology story of wage inequality
203
10
Executive pay soars
213
4
Jobs: recession leads to employment losses
217
60
Unemployment
218
9
Unemployment and the earnings distribution
225
2
Employment
227
11
Work hours
238
5
Benefits
243
7
Nonstandard work
250
12
Part-time work
259
2
Temping
261
1
Self-employment
261
1
Job stability and job security
262
15
Declining job stability
264
6
Displacement
270
3
Job security
273
4
Wealth: deeper in debt
277
32
Net worth
278
7
Racial divide
283
1
Low net worth
284
1
Assets
285
9
Stocks
286
3
Home ownership
289
3
Retirement wealth and income adequacy
292
2
Liabilities
294
15
Debt service
298
2
Hardship
300
2
Student loans
302
7
Poverty: historic progress, but high rates persist
309
48
The course and composition of poverty, 1959-2000
311
8
Alternative approaches to measuring poverty
319
11
What's wrong with the current poverty measure?
319
11
Poverty, growth, and the inequality wedge
330
12
The impact of demographic change
333
5
The changing effects of taxes and transfers
338
4
Work and poverty: the policy thrust of the 1990s
342
8
Poverty and the low-wage labor market
350
7
Regional Analysis: significant variation among the states
357
38
Income
358
8
Labor markets
366
19
Poverty and low-wage shares
385
10
International Comparisons: more inequality, less mobility out of poverty
395
38
Incomes and productivity: U.S. lead narrows
396
7
Workers' wages and compensation: unequal growth
403
6
Household income: unequal growth
409
5
Poverty: deeper and more enduring in the United States
414
8
Employment and hours worked: problems with the U.S. model
422
8
Evaluating the U.S. model
430
3
Appendix A: The family income data series
433
6
Appendix B: Wage analysis computations
439
8
Table notes
447
18
Figure notes
465
8
Bibliography
473
10
Index
483
10
About EPI
493
1
About the authors
494