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09-33: Resolving the Tension Between Access and Confidentiality: Past Experience and Future Plans at the U.S. Census Bureau

Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin and Lynn Riggs

09-32: Who Leaves, Where to, and Why Worrry? Employee Mobility, Employee Entrepreneurship, and Effects on Source Firm Performance

Benjamin Campbell, Martin Ganco, April Franco and Rajshree Agarwal

09-31: Why Do Firms Own Production Chains?

Ali Hortacsu and Chad Syverson

09-30: Entrepreneurship and Japanese Industrialization in Historical Perspective

John Tang

09-29: U.S. Trade in Toxics: The Case of Chlorodifluoromethane (HCFC-22)

Randy Becker and John Tang

09-28: Discretionary Disclosure in Financial Reporting: An Examination Comparing Internal Firm Data to Externally Reported Segment Data

Daniel Bens, Philip Berger and Steven Monahan

09-27: Health Insurance and Productivity: Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector

Sang Nguyen and Alice Zawacki

09-26: Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data

Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen Jenkins and Jeff Larrimore

09-25: On Spatial Heterogeneity in Environmental Compliance Costs

Randy Becker

09-24: Earnings Inequality and Coordination Costs: Evidence from U.S. Law Firms

Luis Garicano and Thomas Hubbard

09-23: Entry, Exit, and the Determinants of Market Structure

Timothy Dunne, Shawn Klimek, Mark Roberts and Daniel Yi Xu

09-22: Testing for Factor Price Equality in the Presence of Unobserved Factor Quality Diferences

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

09-21: Multi-Product Firms and Trade Liberalization

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

09-20: Understanding Earnings Instability: How Important are Employment Fluctuations and Job Changes?

Sule Celik, Chinhui Juhn, Kristin McCue and Jesse Thompson

09-19: Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health

Joshua Angrist, Stacey Chen and Brigham Frandsen

09-18: The Margins of U.S. Trade (Long Version)

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

09-17: Long Term Effects of Military Service on the Distribution of Earnings

Brigham Frandsen

09-16: Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality

Alvin Silk and Charles King

09-15: Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services

Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst Berndt, James Davis and Alvin Silk

09-14: Estimating the "True" Cost of Job Loss: Evidence Using Matched Data from Califormia 1991-2000

Till von Wachter, Elizabeth Handwerker and Andrew Hildreth

09-13: Firms' Exporting Behavior under Quality Constraints

Juan Hallak and Jagadeesh Sivadasan

09-12: The Micro-Dynamics of Skill Mix Changes in a Dual Labor Market: The Spanish Manufacturing Experience

Adela Luque and C.J. Krizan

09-11: Concording U.S. Harmonized System Categories Over Time

Justin Pierce and Peter Schott

09-10: Complex Survey Questions and the Impact of Enumeration Procedures: Census/American Community Survey Disability Questions

Andrew Houtenville, William Erickson and Melissa Bjelland

09-09: Exploring Differences in Employment between Household and Establishment Data

Katharine Abraham, John Haltiwanger, Kristin Sandusky and James Spletzer

09-08: Employer Health Benefit Costs and Demand for Part-Time Labor

Jennifer Feenstra Schultz and David Doorn

09-07: Credit Market Competition and the Nature of Firms

Nicola Cetorelli

09-06: Trends in Regional Industrial Concentration in the United States

Joshua Drucker

09-05: Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach

Stephen Jenkins, Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Jeff Larrimore

09-04: Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Pete Klenow

09-03: Spatial Influences on the Employment of U.S. Hispanics: Spatial Mismatch, Discrimination, or Immigrant Networks?

Judith Hellerstein, Melissa McInerney and David Neumark

09-02: Bank Crises and Investor Confidence

Una Osili and Anna Paulson

09-01: Neighbors and Co-Workers: The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks

Judith Hellerstein, Melissa McInerney and David Neumark

08-41: Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices

Ali Hortacsu and Chad Syverson

08-40: Manufacturing Plants' Use of Temporary Workers: An Analysis Using Census Micro Data

Yukako Ono and Daniel Sullivan

08-39: Gender Differences in Business Performance: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey

Robert Fairlie and Alicia Robb

08-38: Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality Using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data: The Value of Including Variances and Cell Means When Imputing Topcoded Values

Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Jeff Larrimore

08-37: Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

Edward Glaeser and William Kerr

08-36: Linking Investment Spikes and Productivity Growth: U.S. Food Manufacturing Industry

Pinar Geylani and Spiro Stefanou

08-35: The Effects of Smoking in Young Adulthood on Smoking and Health Later in Life: Evidence Based on the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery

Daniel Eisenberg and Brian Rowe

08-34: The Green Industry: An Examination of Environmental Products Manufacturing

Randy Becker and Ron Shadbegian

08-33: Productivity Dispersion and Input Prices: The Case of Electricity

Steven Davis, Cheryl Grim and John Haltiwanger

08-32: A Comparison of Employee Benefits Data from the MEPS-IC and Form 5500

Kristin McCue

08-31: The Direct and Indirect Costs of Food Safety Regulation

Michael Ollinger

08-30: Computer Network Use and Firms' Productivity Performance: The United States vs. Japan

Barbara Atrostic, Kazuyuki Motohashi and Sang Nguyen

08-29: Transfer Pricing by U.S.-Based Multinational Firms

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen and Peter Schott

08-28: An Analysis of Key Differences in Micro Data: Results from the Business List Comparison Project

Kristin Fairman, Lucia Foster, C.J. Krizan and Ian Rucker

08-27: Choices of Metropolitan Destinations by the 1995-2000 New Immigrants Born in Mexico and India: Characterization and Multivariate Explanation

Kao-Lee Liaw and William Frey

08-26: Business Volatility, Job Destruction, and Unemployment

Steven Davis, Jason Faberman, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Javier Miranda

08-25: Estimating Trends in U.S. Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring

Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen Jenkins and Jeff Larrimore