The declining middle class: a further analysis. (shift away from middle-income employment and earnings distribution)

From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: September 1, 1986| Author: McMahon, Patrick J.; Tschetter, John H. | Copyright information

The declining middle class: a further analysis

Some observers argue that jobs in the U.S. economy are shifting from middle paying to low and high paying. Some attribute the shift, or bipolarization, to declining employment in smokestack industries and growth of high tech industries, low paying occupations, and service-producing industries.1 Others attribute the shift to the movement of the baby-boom generation into the labor market.2 Robert Lawrence of The Brookings Ins...

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