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Tables of Contents for The Roaring Nineties
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Contributors
vii
Foreword
xi
Acknowledgments
xv
Introduction
xvii
PART I MACROECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES
1
156
Prices, Wages, and the U.S. Nairu in the 1990s
3
58
Productivity Growth and the Phillips Curve
61
30
The Fabulous Decade: Macroeconomic Lessons from the 1990s
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
159
60
Have the New Human-Resource Management Practices Lowered the Sustainable Unemployment Rate?
219
41
The Effects of Growing International Trade on the U.S. Labor Market
260
47
PART III INCREASING LABOR SUPPLIES AND THEIR LIMITS
307
184
Labor and the Sustainability of Output and Productivity Growth
309
58
Changes in Unemployment Duration and Labor-Force Attachment
367
54
The Sputtering Labor Force of the Twenty-First Century: Can Social Policy Help?
421
70
PART IV THE BENEFITS AND PITFALLS OF TIGHT LABOR MARKETS
491
88
Another Look at Whether a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
493
45
Rising Productivity and Falling Unemployment: Can the U.S. Experience be Sustained and Replicated?
538
41
Index
579