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Tables of Contents for The Roaring Nineties
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Contributors
vii
Foreword
Richard C. Leone and Eric Wanner
xi
Acknowledgments
xv
Introduction
Alan B. Krueger and Robert M. Solow
xvii
PART I MACROECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES
1
156
Prices, Wages, and the U.S. Nairu in the 1990s
Douglas Staiger James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson
3
58
Productivity Growth and the Phillips Curve
Laurence Ball and Robert Moffitt
61
30
The Fabulous Decade: Macroeconomic Lessons from the 1990s
Alan S. Blinder and Janet L. Yellen
91
66
PART II FLEXIBLE, OPEN LABOR MARKETS
157
150
Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Outcomes: Lessons for the United States from International Long-Run Evidence
Giuseppe Bertola Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn
159
60
Have the New Human-Resource Management Practices Lowered the Sustainable Unemployment Rate?
Jessica Cohen William T. Dickens and Adam Posen
219
41
The Effects of Growing International Trade on the U.S. Labor Market
George Johnson and Matthew J. Slaughter
260
47
PART III INCREASING LABOR SUPPLIES AND THEIR LIMITS
307
184
Labor and the Sustainability of Output and Productivity Growth
Rebecca M. Blank and Matthew D. Shapiro
309
58
Changes in Unemployment Duration and Labor-Force Attachment
Katharine G. Abraham and Robert Shimer
367
54
The Sputtering Labor Force of the Twenty-First Century: Can Social Policy Help?
David T. Ellwood
421
70
PART IV THE BENEFITS AND PITFALLS OF TIGHT LABOR MARKETS
491
88
Another Look at Whether a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
James R. Hines Jr. Hilary W. Hoynes and Alan B. Krueger
493
45
Rising Productivity and Falling Unemployment: Can the U.S. Experience be Sustained and Replicated?
Lisa M. Lynch and Stephen J. Nickell
538
41
Index
579
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