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Chapter 1: A Rationale for the Study of Intersectional Wage Discrimination -- Chapter 2: Theories of Discrimination and a Review of the Related Literature -- Chapter 3: Our Empirical Strategy: Mincer Earnings Functions and the Blinder-Oaxaca Technique -- Chapter 4: Estimating Wage Discrimination and Examining Variation Across Worker Groups -- Chapter 5: Evidence of Intersectional Wage Discrimination and the Consideration of Possible Pre-Market Discrimination -- Chapter 6: A Summary and Concluding Thoughts.

This book investigates and documents multidimensional poverty in the United States and identifies patterns and relationships that contribute to the development of a more complete understanding of the incidence and intensity of deprivation. The first part introduces multidimensional poverty and provides a rationale for viewing poverty through a lens of multiple deprivations. It discusses how the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) compares to more narrowly-focused, income-based poverty measures and emphasizes its usefulness and applicability for the formulation of related, welfare-enhancing public policies. The second part documents multidimensional poverty incidence, intensity, and corresponding MPI values at the aggregate level of detail, for various demographic cohorts, and across geographic locales. The book then presents results from an empirical analysis that identifies the determinants of multidimensional poverty incidence and of individual deprivation scores. The third part consists of three studies of multidimensional poverty, examining the effect of the Affordable Care Act on multidimensional poverty incidence and intensity, variation in multidimensional poverty across native- and foreign-born residents (and across immigrants' home countries) of the US, and variation in the respective indicators that contribute to multidimensional poverty across the life cycle. The book closes with two chapters. The first relays the findings of counterfactual exercises where certain deprivations are assumed to have been eliminated. The final chapter summarizes the work, draws inferences and arrives at conclusions, and discusses the corresponding public policy implications.

1. Poverty and Deprivation in America -- 2. A Survey of Related Literature -- 3. Measuring Multidimensional Poverty -- 4. A Profile of the Multidimensionally Poor in America -- 5. Variation in Multidimensional Poverty across Demographic Cohorts -- 6. Variation in Multidimensional Poverty across Geographic Locales -- 7. Identifying the Determinants of Multidimensional Poverty -- 8. The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Multidimensional Poverty -- 9. Nativity, Immigrant Source Countries, and Multidimensional Poverty -- 10. Multidimensional Poverty over the Life Cycle -- 11. Reducing Multidimensional Poverty: A Series of Counterfactual Analyses -- 12. Summary and Conclusions.

A legacy of discrimination -- The Colonial Era and the Northern and Western European wave. 1607-1874 -- The Southern and Eastern European wave: qualitative restrictions. 1875-1920 -- The National Origins Quota system: quantitative restrictions. 1921-1967 -- A pivot in U.S. immigration policy. 1968-present -- Identifying the determinants of U.S. immigration -- The effects of policy changes on immigration to the United States -- The influence of immigration policy on cross-societal cultural distances -- Looking forward: anticipated cultural evolution and corresponding implications, 2015-2065 -- How immigration policy has shaped American culture and opportunities for U.S. public policy in the twenty-first century

Contents: 1. A legacy of discrimination -- Part I A review of U.S. Immigration history -- 2. The colonial era and the northern and western European Wave, 1607-1874 -- 3. The southern and eastern European wave: qualitative restrictions, 1875-1920 -- 4. The national origin quota system: quantitative restrictions, 1921-1967 -- 5. A pivot in U.S. Immigration Policy, 1968-Present -- Part II The determinants of U.S. immigration, effects of policy changes, and consequences for cultural differences -- 6. Identifying the determinants of U.S. Immigration -- 7. The effects of policy changes on immigration to the United States -- 8. The influence of immigration policy on cross-societal cultural distances -- Part III Implications for American culture and opportunities for policy -- 9. Looking forward: anticipated cultural evolution and corresponding implications, 2015-2065 -- 10. How immigration policy has shaped American culture and opportunities for U.S. public policy in the Twenty-first Century -- References -- Index.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Economic Globalization and Cross-Societal Cultural Differences -- Chapter 1 A Movement Toward Greater Integration of the Global Economy -- 1.1 Stylized Facts Related to Public Opinion on International Trade -- 1.2 The Layout of This Book -- References -- Chapter 2 Variation in Public Opinion on International Trade: A First Look at Cultural Distance -- 2.1 An Overview of Public Opinion on International Trade -- 2.2 Our Empirical Specification, Variable Construction, and Data Sources -- 2.2.1 Our Variable of Primary Interest: Cultural Distance -- 2.2.2 Construction of Individual-Specific Control Variables -- 2.2.3 Descriptive Statistics -- 2.3 Does Cultural Distance Correspond with Variation in Opinions on Trade? -- 2.4 Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 3 Expected Winners and Losers: Economic Effects and Public Opinion Survey Responses -- 3.1 A Very Gentle Introduction to the Specific Factors Model -- 3.2 The Anticipated Economic Effects of Trade on Real Factor Returns -- 3.3 Changes in Factor Endowments and Implications for Real Factor Returns -- 3.3.1 Foreign Direct Investment Inflows -- 3.3.2 Immigration -- 3.4 Public Opinion Survey Responses and Perceived Economic Effects of Trade and Factor Inflows -- Part II Modeling the Determinants of Public Opinion -- Chapter 4 A Primer on the Measurement of Cross-Societal Cultural Differences -- 4.1 The Inglehart Measure of Cultural Distance -- 4.2 The Hofstede Measures of Cultural Distance -- 4.3 The GLOBE Measure of Cultural Distance -- 4.4 Comparing and Contrasting the Inglehart, Hofstede, and GLOBE Measures -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 5 An Empirical Model of the Determinants of Public Opinion on Economic Globalization

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation: An Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2 The Politics of Poverty Measurement and Social Policies: Global Observations -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Politics of Poverty Measurement -- 2.3 Hypotheses and Empirical Strategy -- 2.4 Poverty Lines in Practice Globally -- 2.5 Poverty Measurement and Outcomes in South Asia -- 2.6 Conclusion -- Appendix: Country Listing and Data Coverage -- References -- Chapter 3 Efficiency and Distributive Justice in Multidimensional Poverty Issues -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Theoretical Background -- 3.3 The Aggregation Step -- 3.4 The Axiomatic Foundation for Ordinal Poverty Measures -- 3.4.1 Non-distributional Axioms -- 3.4.2 Distributional Axioms -- 3.5 Correlation-Sensitive Poverty Measures -- 3.5.1 The Multidimensional Bossert, Chakravarty and D'Ambrosio Class of Poverty Measures -- 3.5.2 The Multidimensional Chakravarty and D'Ambrosio Class of Poverty Measures -- 3.5.3 The Multidimensional Alkire and Foster Class of Poverty Measures -- 3.5.4 The Multidimensional Correlation-Sensitive Class of Poverty Measures -- 3.5.5 Poverty Decompositions -- 3.6 Poverty in India -- 3.7 Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 4 An Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty: Evidence from Italy -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Data Description -- 4.3 Methodology -- 4.4 Results -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Economic Vulnerability in Spain: Before, During, and "After" Crisis -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Data and Methodology -- 5.2.1 Income -- 5.2.2 Material Deprivation -- 5.2.3 Economic Stress -- 5.3 Results -- 5.4 Who Were the Vulnerable? Vulnerability Profiles in 2004 -- 5.5 Vulnerability Dynamics Through Economic Crisis -- 5.6 Concluding Remarks -- References

Opinion polls indicate that a considerable portion of the U.S. public holds negative views of international trade. The extent of anti-trade sentiment exhibited by the American public is largely out of step with public opinion elsewhere in the world. In fact, the U.S. may be one of the most trade-wary societies. Worries that trade, particularly increased imports, will lead to job loss and/or reduced wages for domestic workers are thought to underlie the negative views. Examining the extent to which trade adversely affects domestic workers, White documents statistical relationships between exports and imports and domestic employment/wages; however, the magnitudes of the estimated effects appear too small to justify public opinion on the topic. To better understand U.S. public opinion of international trade, and to explain why Americans are, in general, less supportive of trade, the author considers loss-aversion, incomplete/imperfect information, and the ability to process information as possible alternative explanations..