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American Economic Review
Vol. 89 No. 2 May 1999
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In Defense of Inequality
(pp. 1-17)
Fifty Years of U.S. Income Data from the Current Population Survey: Alternatives, Trends, and Quality
(pp. 18-22)
U.S. Wage-Inequality Trends and Recent Immigration
(pp. 23-28)
Some Income-Measurement Issues and Their Policy Implications
(pp. 29-33)
Why Do Different Wage Series Tell Different Stories?
(pp. 34-39)
Economic Growth: How Good Can It Get?
(pp. 40-44)
Measuring Labor's Share
(pp. 45-51)
The NAIRU and Wages in Local Labor Markets
(pp. 52-57)
Does the NAIRU Have the Right Dynamics?
(pp. 58-62)
Behind This Structural Boom: The Role of Asset Valuations
(pp. 63-68)
Wage Dynamics: Reconciling Theory and Evidence
(pp. 69-74)
Toward a General Theory of Wage and Price Rigidities and Economic Fluctuations
(pp. 75-80)
Price Dynamics and Production Lags
(pp. 81-88)
Firm-Size Wage Differentials in Switzerland: Evidence from Job-Changers
(pp. 89-93)
Productivity Differences across Employers: The Roles of Employer Size, Age, and Human Capital
(pp. 94-98)
Examining the Employer-Size Wage Premium in the Manufacturing, Retail Trade, and Service Industries Using Employer-Employee Matched Data
(pp. 99-103)
Workers Are More Productive in Large Firms
(pp. 104-108)
Information Technology and Growth
(pp. 109-115)
The Information-Technology Revolution and the Stock Market
(pp. 116-122)
U.S. Economic Growth since 1870: One Big Wave?
(pp. 123-128)
Zipf's Law and the Growth of Cities
(pp. 129-132)
Productivity Growth and Factor Prices in East Asia
(pp. 133-138)
Growth: With or Without Scale Effects?
(pp. 139-144)
Population and Economic Growth
(pp. 145-149)
From Malthusian Stagnation to Modern Growth
(pp. 150-154)
Income-Distribution Dynamics with Endogenous Fertility
(pp. 155-160)
Generational Accounting around the Globe
(pp. 161-166)
Generational Accounting in Europe
(pp. 167-170)
Lessons from Generational Accounting in Japan
(pp. 171-175)
Analyzing the Fiscal Impact of U.S. Immigration
(pp. 176-180)
Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected?
(pp. 181-185)
Immigrants and Human-Capital Investment
(pp. 186-191)
Immigration Policy and Immigrant Quality: The Australian Points System
(pp. 192-197)
Women's Wages in Women's Work: A U.S./Canada Comparison of the Roles of Unions and "Public Goods" Sector Jobs
(pp. 198-203)
Exchange Rates and Employment Instability: Evidence from Matched CPS Data
(pp. 204-210)
Employment and Retirement Following a Late-Career Job Loss
(pp. 211-216)
Medicare Reform: Obstacles and Options
(pp. 217-221)
Prefunding Medicare
(pp. 222-227)
The Geography of Medicare
(pp. 228-233)
Household Resource Allocation in Stepfamilies: Darwin Reflects on the Plight of Cinderella
(pp. 234-238)
Parental Resources and Child Abuse and Neglect
(pp. 239-244)
Is the Impact of Health Shocks Cushioned by Socioeconomic Status? The Case of Low Birthweight
(pp. 245-250)
Population Growth, Dependency, and Consumption
(pp. 251-255)
Fertility Decline in the Developed World: Where Will It End?
(pp. 256-260)
U.S. Abortion Policy and Fertility
(pp. 261-264)
Measures of Agricultural Support Policies in Transition Economies: 1994-1997
(pp. 265-270)
Land Reform and Farm Restructuring: What Has Been Accomplished to Date?
(pp. 271-275)
Inside China's Cities: Institutional Barriers and Opportunities for Urban Migrants
(pp. 276-280)
Leaving the Countryside: Rural-to-Urban Migration Decisions in China
(pp. 281-286)
Migration, Remittances, and Agricultural Productivity in China
(pp. 287-291)
Markets and Inequality in Rural China: Parallels with the Past
(pp. 292-295)
Income Distribution in Urban China during the Period of Economic Reform and Globalization
(pp. 296-300)
China's Lagging Poor Areas
(pp. 301-305)
Urban-Biased Policies and Rising Income Inequality in China
(pp. 306-310)
The Geographic Concentration of Industry: Does Natural Advantage Explain Agglomeration?
(pp. 311-316)
Scale of Local Production and City Size
(pp. 317-320)
Spatial Evolution of Population and Industry in the United States
(pp. 321-327)
Decomposition of Productivity and Unit Costs
(pp. 328-332)
Quality Improvement in Health Care: A Framework for Price and Output Measurement
(pp. 333-337)
Discrepancies in International Data: An Application to China-Hong Kong Entrepot Trade
(pp. 338-343)
How Departments of Economics Evaluate Teaching
(pp. 344-349)
What Do College Seniors Know about Economics?
(pp. 350-354)
The State of Economic Education
(pp. 355-361)
Credit and Banking Structure: Asian and African-American Experience in Los Angeles
(pp. 362-366)
What Can We Expect from Community-Based Lending for the District of Columbia
(pp. 367-371)
The Economic Performance of African-American-Owned Banks: The Role of Loan Loss Provisions
(pp. 372-376)
Portfolio Choices of Parents and Their Children as Young Adults: Asset Accumulation by African-American Families
(pp. 377-380)
Financial Decision-Making: Are Women Really More Risk-Averse?
(pp. 381-385)
Gender and Culture: International Experimental Evidence from Trust Games
(pp. 386-391)
Cracks in the Glass Ceiling: Gender and Promotion in the Economics Profession
(pp. 392-396)
Gender Differences in Salary and Promotion in the Humanities
(pp. 397-402)
Same Song, Same Refrain? Economic Sanctions in the 1990's
(pp. 403-408)
Sanctions: Some Simple Analytics
(pp. 409-414)
Sanctions on South Africa: What Did They Do?
(pp. 415-420)
Recent Theoretical Work on the Soft Budget Constraint
(pp. 421-425)
Policy Burdens, Accountability, and the Soft Budget Constraint
(pp. 426-431)
The Myth of the East Asian Miracle: The Macroeconomic Implications of Soft Budgets
(pp. 432-437)
Institutions, Innovations, and Growth
(pp. 438-443)
Minutes of the Annual Meeting
(pp. 447-448)
Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings
(pp. 449-461)
Report of the Secretary for 1998
(pp. 462-464)
Report of the Treasurer for the Year Ending December 31, 1998
(p. 465)
Report of the Finance Committee
(p. 466)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Review
(pp. 467-475)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature
(pp. 476-478)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 479-483)
Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists
(pp. 484-485)
Report of the Committee on Economic Education
(pp. 486-487)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession
(pp. 488-491)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
(pp. 492-498)
American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics
(pp. 499-502)