The great risk shift : the assault on American jobs, families, health care, and retirement and how you can fight back

By Jacob S. Hacker. 2006

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Counseling for Work and RelationshipΨ (2012, background): “Most recently, the new health care bill in the United States, passed in 2010, provides a mechanism for developing a host of new indicators of progress beyond economic output (Gertner, 2010).”
Precarious jobs: Where are they, and how do they affect well-being? (2017, background): “Hacker (2006) argues that labour market risks are increasingly borne by workers as employers back away from long-term employment norms.”
Passing the buck: Labor flexibility practices that transfer risk onto hourly workers (2008, background): “2 Dynan et al.’s (2008) analyses indicate that in the past three decades volatility in household income has increased 30 percent rather than 75 percent as originally estimated by Hacker (2006).”
Financialization of the Economy (2015, background): “The general public now relied on stock market returns to be able to afford college and retirement (Hacker 2006).”
Reconceptualizing financial innovation: frame, conjuncture and bricolage (2010, background): “As a result, households across the Western world have seen state-backed guarantees eroded and have increasingly been obliged to turn to financial markets to gain access to goods such as housing, higher education and protection against unemployment or ill health (Hacker, 2006; Manning, 2000).”
Schedule flexibility in hourly jobs: unanticipated consequences and promising directions (2012, background): “The literature is replete with evidence that broad changes in the economy over the last three decades (the shift from manufacturing to services, for example), declines in unionization, the spread of business strategies emphasizing cost containment, and loosening of government labor standards are con”
Handbook of Consumer Finance Research (2008, background): “Because fi nancial decision- making is becoming increasingly more complex (Hacker, 2006 ), many parents may not feel they have adequate information themselves.”
Earnings, consumption and lifecycle choices (2010, neutral): “We start off in Section 2 with a discussion of 6One example is the debate in the popular press on the so-called "great risk shift" (Hacker, 2006; The Economist, 2007).”
Changes in the Distribution of Income Volatility (2008, background): “Some work (Hacker, 2006) argues that since people are risk-averse, this increase in risk is a bad thing.”
Earnings Inequality and Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data Since 1937 (2010, result): “They are more difficult to reconcile, however, with the findings of Hungerford (1993) and especially Hacker (2006) who find great increases in family income variability in recent decades using PSID data.”
The Financialization of Home and the Mortgage Market Crisis (2008, neutral): “Indeed, the restructuring of welfare states has resulted in a ‘great risk shift’ in which households are increasingly dependent on financial markets for their longterm security (Hacker 2006).”
Post-socialist housing meets transnational finance: Foreign banks, mortgage lending, and the privatization of welfare in Hungary and Estonia (2014, background): “In his influential book The Great Risk Shift, Jakob Hacker (2006) looks at the various ways in which risk for American households has increased C© 2013 Taylor & Francis over the last decades.”