The high-pressure U.S. labor market of the 1990s

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Volumn , Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-87

  Katz, Lawrence F ^a   Krueger, Alan B ^a  

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EID: 0039657180     PISSN: 00072303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2534662     Document Type: Article

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