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10-15: Comparing Measures of Earnings Instability Based on Survey and Adminstrative Reports

Chinhui Juhn and Kristin McCue

10-14: Concentration, Diversity, and Manufacturing Performance

Joshua Drucker

10-13: Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size

Thomas J. Holmes and John Stevens

10-12: Pollution Havens and the Trade in Toxic Chemicals: Evidence from U.S. Trade Flows

John Tang

10-11: National Estimates of Gross Employment and Job Flows from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators with Demographic and Industry Detail

John Abowd and Lars Vilhuber

10-10: An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade

Thomas Holmes and John Stevens

10-09: Foreign-Born Out-Migration from New Destinations: The Effects of Economic Conditions and Nativity Concentration

Mary Kritz and Douglas Gurak

10-08: Building New Plants or Entering by Acquisition? Estimation of an Entry Model for the U.S. Cement Industry

Hector Perez-Saiz

10-07: Globalization and Price Dispersion: Evidence from U.S. Trade Flows

John Tang

10-06: The Effect of Firm Compensation Structures on Employee Mobility and Employee Entrepreneurship of Extreme Performers

Seth Carnahan, Rajshree Agarwal, Benjamin Campbell and April Franco

10-05: The Effect of Class Size on Teacher Attrition: Evidence from Class Size Reduction Policies in New York State

Emily Isenberg

10-04: Wage Premia in Employment Clusters: Agglomeration or Worker Heterogeneity?

Shihe Fu and Stephen Ross

10-03: Electronic Networking Technologies, Innovation Misfit, and Plant Performance

Robert G. Fichman and Nigel P. Melville

10-02: Euler-Equation Estimation for Discrete Choice Models: A Capital Accumulation Application

Russell Cooper, John Haltiwanger and Jonathan Willis

10-01: The Closure Effect: Evidence from Workers Compensation Litigation

Henry Hyatt

09-44: Employee Capitalism or Corporate Socialism? Broad-Based Employee Stock Ownership

E. Han Kim and Paige Ouimet

09-43: The Impact of Plant-Level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth

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

09-42: IT for Information-Based Partnerships: Empirical Analysis of Environmental Contingencies to Value Co-Creation

Terence Saldanha, Nigel Melville, Ronald Ramirez and Vernon Richardson

09-41: A Concordance Between Ten-Digit U.S. Harmonized System Codes and SIC/NAICS Product Classes and Industries

Justin Pierce and Peter Schott

09-40: A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

John Abowd, Francis Kramarz, Sebastien Perez-Duarte and Ian Schmutte

09-39: Information Technology, Capabilities and Asset Ownership: Evidence from Taxicab Fleets

Evan Rawley and Tim Simcoe

09-38: Plant-Level Responses to Antidumping Duties: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturers

Justin Pierce

09-37: The Effect of Wage Insurance on Labor Supply: A Test for Income Effects

Henry Hyatt

09-36: Clusters of Entrepreneurship

Edward Glaeser, William Kerr and Giacomo Ponzetto

09-35: The Center for Economic Studies 1982-2007: A Brief History

Barbara Atrostic

09-34: Mom-and-Pop Meet Big-Box: Complements or Substitutes?

John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and C.J. Krizan

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