Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Macroeconomic perspectives
  • ch. 1. Prices, wages, and the U.S. nairu in the 1990s / Douglas Staiger, James H. Stock, and Mark W. Watson
  • ch. 2. Productivity growth and the Phillips curve / Laurence Ball and Robert Moffitt
  • ch. 3. Fabulous decade: macroeconomic lessons from the 1990s / Alan S. Blinder and Janet L. Yellen
  • pt. II. Flexible, open labor markets
  • ch. 4. Comparative analysis of labor market outcomes: lessons for the United States from the international long-run evidence / Giuseppe Bertola, Francine D. Blau, and Lawrence M. Kahn
  • ch. 5. Have the new human-resource management practices lowered the sustainable unemployment rate? / Jessica Cohen, William T. Dickens, and Adam Posen
  • ch. 6. Effects of growing international trade on the U.S. labor market / George Johnson and Matthew J. Slaughter.
  • pt. III. Increasing labor supplies and their limits
  • ch. 7. Labor and the sustainability of output and productivity growth / Rebecca M. Blank and Matthew D. Shapiro
  • ch. 8. Changes in unemployment duration and labor-force attachment / Katharine G. Abraham and Robert Shimer
  • ch. 9. Sputtering labor forces of the Twenty-first century: can social policy help? / David T. Ellwood
  • pt. IV. Benefits and pitfalls of tight labor markets
  • ch. 10. Another look at whether a rising tide lifts all boats / James R. Hines Jr., Hilary W. Hoynes, and Alan B. Krueger
  • ch. 11. Rising productivity and falling unemployment: can the U.S. experience be sustained and replicated? / Lisa M. Lynch and Stephen J. Nickell.