Front Matter
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American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
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)