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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

11-24: Wage Dynamics along the Life-Cycle of Manufacturing Plants

Emin Dinlersoz, Henry Hyatt and Sang Nguyen

11-23: The Productivity Advantage and Global Scope of U.S. Multinational Firms

Raymond Mataloni, Jr.

11-22: Management Challenges of the 2010 U.S. Census

Daniel Weinberg

11-21: Impacts of Central Business District Location: A Hedonic Analysis of Legal Service Establishments

Frank Limehouse and Robert McCormick

11-20: Estimating Measurement Error in SIPP Annual Job Earnings: A Comparison of Census Bureau Survey and SSA Administrative Data

John Abowd and Martha Stinson

11-19: Using the Survey of Plant Capacity to Measure Capital Utilization

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Matthew Shapiro

11-18: The Emergence of Wage Discrimination in U.S. Manufacturing

Joyce Burnette

11-17: The Case of the Missing Ethnicity: Indians without Tribes in the 21st Century

Carolyn Liebler and Meghan Zacher

11-16: Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector

Emek Basker

11-15: The Cyclicality of Productivity Dispersion

Matthias Kehrig

11-14: Errors in Survey Reporting and Imputation and Their Effects on Estimates of Food Stamp Program Participation

Bruce Meyer and Robert Goerge

11-13: LEHD Infrastructure Files in the Census RDC: Overview of S2004 Snapshot

Kevin McKinney and Lars Vilhuber

11-12: Parental Earnings and Children's Well-Being and Future Success: An Analysis of the SIPP Matched to SSA Earnings Data

Bhashkar Mazumder and Jonathan Davis

11-11: Post-Merger Restructuring and the Boundaries of the Firm

Vojislav Maksimovic, Gordon Phillips and Nagpurnanand Prabhala

11-10: Do Market Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

Kristina McElheran

11-09: Does the Retirement Consumption Puzzle Differ Across the Distribution?

Jonathan Fisher and Joseph Marchand

11-08: How Does Size Matter? Investigating the Relationships Among Plant Size, Industrial Structure, and Manufacturing Productivity

Joshua Drucker

11-07: Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy

Matias Busso, Jesse Gregory and Patrick Kline

11-06: What Do I Take With Me: The Impact of Transfer and Replication of Resources on Parent and Spin-Out Firm Performance

Rajshree Agarwal, Benjamin Campbell, April Franco and Martin Ganco

11-05: Beyond Cobb-Douglas: Estimation of a CES Production Function with Factor Augmenting Technology

Devesh Raval

11-04: Towards Unrestricted Public Use Business Microdata: The Synthetic Longitudinal Business Database

Satkartar K. Kinney, Jerome P. Reiter, Arnold Reznek, Javier Miranda, Ron Jarmin and John Abowd

11-03: The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competiveness of U.S. Manufacturing

Michael Greenstone, John List and Chad Syverson

11-02: Plant-Level Productivity and Imputation of Missing Data in the Census of Manufactures

T. Kirk White, Jerome P. Reiter and Amil Petrin

11-01: Local Manufacturing Establishments and the Earnings of Manufacturing Workers: Insights from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Charles M. Tolbert and Troy C. Blanchard

10-41: Migration Decisions in Arctic Alaska: Empirical Evidence of the Stepping Stones Hypothesis

Lance Howe and Lee Huskey

10-40: Job Referral Networks and the Determination of Earnings in Local Labor Markets

Ian Schmutte