Poverty and Discrimination /

Poverty and Discrimination / / Kevin Lang.

Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literatu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Lang, Kevin,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2007
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (424 p.) :; 51 illus. 40 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Part 1. Poverty
  • Chapter 2. Who Is Poor?
  • Chapter 3. The Evolution of Poverty Policy
  • Chapter 4. Trends in Poverty
  • Chapter 5. Labor Market Policies
  • Chapter 6. Family Composition
  • Chapter 7. Concentrated Poverty
  • Chapter 8. Education and Education Reform
  • Chapter 9. Welfare Reform
  • Part 2. Discrimination
  • Chapter 10. Discrimination: Theory
  • Chapter 11. Race Discrimination in the Labor Market
  • Chapter 12. Race Discrimination and Education
  • Chapter 13. Race Discrimination in Customer Markets and the Judicial System
  • Chapter 14. Sex Discrimination
  • Chapter 15. Conclusion: An Agenda to Decrease Poverty and Discrimination?
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index

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