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December 2000

Job growth in the 1990s: a retrospect

Julie Hatch Maxfield, Angie Clinton

The long economic expansion fueled job growth during the period, while new technology had mixed effects; the employment divide between the goods- and service-producing sectors of the economy continued to widen

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