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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463803903321

Titolo

The great recession / / David B. Grusky, Bruce Western, and Christopher Wimer, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Russell Sage Foundation, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-61044-750-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Disciplina

330.973/0931

Soggetti

Recessions - United States

Financial crises - United States

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009

Electronic books.

United States Economic conditions 2009-

United States Economic policy 2009-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Preface - David B. Grusky, Christopher Wimer, and Bruce Western; Part I: Introduction ; Chapter 1. The Consequences of the Great Recession - David B. Grusky, Bruce Western and Christopher Wimer; Chapter 2. The Roots of the Great Recession - Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein ; Part II: Economic Effects: The Labor Market, Income and Poverty, and Wealth and Housing; Chapter 3. Job Loss and Unemployment - Michael Hout, Asaf Levanon, and Erin Cumberworth

Chapter 4. Poverty and Income Inequality in the Early Stages of the Great Recession - Timothy M. Smeeding, Jeffrey P. Thompson, Asaf Levanon, and Esra BurakChapter 5. How Much Wealth Was Destroyed in the Great Recession? - Edward N. Wolff, Lindsay A. Owens, and Esra Burak; Part III. Social Effects: Consumption, Attitudes, and Family; Chapter 6. An Analysis of Trends, Perceptions, and Distributional Effects in Consumption - Ivaylo D. Petev, Luigi Pistaferri, and Itay Saporta-Eksten; Chapter 7. The Suprisingly Weak Effect of Recessions on Public Opinion - Lane Kenworthy and Lindsay A. Owens



Chapter 8. The Great Recession's Influence on Fertility, Marriage, Divorce, and Cohabitation - S. Philip Morgan, Erin Cumberworth, and Christopher WimerPart IV. The Collective Response: The Government and Charitable Giving ; Chapter 9. The Federal Stimulus Programs and Their Effects - Gary Burtless and Tracy Gordon; Chapter 10. Has the Great Recession Made Americans Stingier? - Rob Reich, Christopher Wimer, Shazad Hohmed, and Sharda Jambulapati; Index