$ thousands Jan. 28, 2017 Jan. 30, 2016 Jan. 31, 2015 Deferred tax liabilities $71,468 $67,332 $36,289 Total liabilities 578,091 560,870 557,162 Total stockholders' equity 1,204,569 1,051,376 1,139,746 Compute the debt-to-equity ratio (a) including deferred tax liabilities as part of total liabilities, and (b) excluding deferred tax liabilities as part of total liabilities.

Label each of the following statements true, false, or uncertain. explain your choice carefully. a. workers benefit equally from the process of creative destruction. b. in the past two decades, the real wages of low-skill u.s. workers have declined relative to the real wages of high-skill workers. c. technological progress leads to a decrease in employment if, and only if, the increase in output is smaller than the increase in productivity. d. the apparent decrease in the natural rate of unemployment in the united states in the second-half of the 1990s can be explained by the fact that productivity growth was unexpectedly high during that period.