American Economic Review

Vol. 89 No. 2 May 1999

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Richard T. Ely Lecture
Economic Well-Being in the United States: How Much Improvement?
Trends in Worker Pay: What Do the Data Show?
The "Natural Rate" and the NAIRU After Four Years of Low Inflation
New Developments in Price Dynamics
Firm Size and Wages
Productivity Growth: Current Recovery and Longer-Term Trends
New Ideas on Economic Growth
Population and Economic Growth
Generational Accounting Around the World
Immigration Policy and Immigrant Quality
Topics in Labor Economics
Prospects for the Long-Term Reform of Medicare
Child Welfare
Why Has Fertility Fallen Below Replacement in Industrial Nations, and Will It Last?
Agriculture and Transition: The First Decade
History's Largest Labor Flow: Understanding China's Rural Migration
Income Distribution in China
Evolution of the Geographic Concentration of Industry
The Reliability of Aggregate Statistics
The State of Economic Education
Financial Services in the Black Community
Gender and Economic Transactions
Ineffectiveness of Economic Sanctions
The Soft Budget Constraint
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