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12-32: Testing for Factor Price Equality with Unobserved Differences in Factor Quality or Productivity

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

12-31: Workplace Characteristics and Employment of Older Workers

Chinhui Juhn and Kristin McCue

12-30: Do Labor Market Networks Have An Important Spatial Dimension?

Judith K. Hellerstein, Mark Kutzbach and David Neumark

12-29: Estimation of Job-to-Job Flow Rates under Partially Missing Geography

Cody Henderson and Henry Hyatt

12-28: The United States Labor Market: Status Quo or A New Normal?

Edward Lazear and James Spletzer

12-27: Do SBA Loans Create Jobs? Estimates from Universal Panel Data and Longitudinal Matching Methods

J. David Brown and John Earle

12-26: Occupation Inflation in the Current Population Survey

Jonathan Fisher and Christina Houseworth

12-25: Do Environmental Regulations Disproportionately Affect Small Businesses? Evidence from the Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures Survey

Randy Becker, Carl Pasurka and Ron Shadbegian

12-24: Intergenerational Transmission of Race: Permeable Boundaries between 1970 and 2010

Carolyn A. Liebler and Marie DeRousse-Wu

12-23: Testing for Wage Discrimination in U.S. Manufacturing

Joyce Burnette

12-22: The Dynamics of House Price Capitalization and Locational Sorting: Evidence from Air Quality Changes

Corey Lang

12-20: The Life Cycle of Plants in India and Mexico

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Pete Klenow

12-19: The Location of Displaced New Orleans Residents in the Year After Hurricane Katrina

Narayan Sastry and Jesse Gregory

12-18: The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

12-17: Decomposing Aggregate Trade Flows: New Evidence from U.S. Traders

Fariha Kamal and C.J. Krizan

12-16: Getting Patents and Economic Data to Speak to Each Other: An 'Algorithmic Links with Probabilities' Approach for Joint Analyses of Patenting and Economic Activity

Travis Lybbert and Nikolas Zolas

12-15: Evaluating the Impact of MEP Services on Establishment Performance: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation

Christopher Ordowich, David Cheney, Jan Youtie, Andrea Fernández-Ribas and Philip Shapira

12-14: The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism: Productivity, Risk, and Product Market Competition

Alon Brav, Wei Jiang and Hyunseob Kim

12-13: Dynamically Consistent Noise Infusion and Partially Synthetic Data as Confidentiality Protection Measures for Related Time Series

John Abowd, R. Gittings, Kevin L. McKinney, Bryce E. Stephens, Lars Vilhuber and Simon Woodcock

12-12: THE RISE AND FALL OF UNIONS IN THE U.S

Emin Dinlersoz and Jeremy Greenwood

12-11: Materials Prices and Productivity

Enghin Atalay

12-10: University Innovation, Local Economic Growth, and Entrepreneurship

Naomi Hausman

12-09: Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

William Kerr and Scott Kominers

12-08: Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

Ufuk Akcigit and William Kerr

12-07: IPO Waves, Product Market Competition, and the Going Public Decision: Theory and Evidence

Thomas Chemmanur and Jie He

12-06: The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning about Demand?

Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and Chad Syverson

12-05: Micro Data and the Macro Elasticity of Substitution

Ezra Oberfield and Devesh Raval

12-04: Job-to-Job Flows and the Business Cycle

Henry Hyatt and Erika McEntarfer

12-03: Wholesalers and Retailers in U.S. Trade (Long Version)

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

12-02: The Transitional Costs of Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence from the Clean Air Act and the Workforce

Reed Walker

12-01: The Spatial Extent of Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from Three U.S. Manufacturing Industries

Joshua Drucker

11-43: LEHD Data Documentation LEHD-OVERVIEW-S2008-rev1

Kevin McKinney and Lars Vilhuber

11-42: Export Prices of U.S. Firms

James Harrigan, Xiangjun Ma and Victor Shlychkov

11-41: Firm Market Power and the Earnings Distribution

Douglas Webber

11-40: Black-White Differences in Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the U.S

Bhashkar Mazumder

11-39: An Analysis of Sample Selection and the Reliability of Using Short-term Earnings Averages in SIPP-SSA Matched Data

Jonathan Davis and Bhashkar Mazumder

11-38: Entry Costs and Increasing Trade

William F. Lincoln and Andrew H. McCallum

11-37: Further Evidence from Census 2000 About Earnings by Detailed Occupation for Men and Women: The Role of Race and Hispanic Origin

Daniel Weinberg

11-36: Changes in Firm Pension Policy: Trends Away from Traditional Defined Benefit Plans

Kandice Kapinos

11-35: Long-Run Earnings Volatility and Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the SIPP Gold Standard File

Matthew Rutledge

11-34: Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance

Susan Dynarski, Jonathan Gruber and Danielle Li

11-33: Migration and Dispersal of Hispanic and Asian Groups: An Analysis of the 2006-2008 Multiyear American Community Survey

William Frey and Julie Park

11-32: Acquiring Labor

Paige Ouimet and Rebecca Zarutskie

11-31: Who Works for Startups? The Relation between Firm Age, Employee Age, and Growth

Paige Ouimet and Rebecca Zarutskie

11-30: Job Displacement And The Duration Of Joblessness: The Role Of Spatial Mismatch

Fredrik Andersson, John Haltiwanger, Mark Kutzbach, Henry Pollakowski and Daniel Weinberg

11-29: Newly Recovered Microdata on U.S. Manufacturing Plants from the 1950s and 1960s: Some Early Glimpses

Randy Becker and Cheryl Grim

11-28: Modeling Single Establishment Firm Returns to the 2007 Economic Census

Emin Dinlersoz and Shawn Klimek

11-27: A Guide to the MEPS-IC Government List Sample Microdata

Alice Zawacki

11-26: Nature Versus Nurture in the Origins of Highly Productive Businesses: An Exploratory Analysis of U.S. Manufacturing Establishments

J. David Brown and John Earle

11-25: Productivity Dispersion and Plant Selection in the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry

Allan Collard-Wexler