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06-01: Soft and Hard Within- and Between-Industry Changes of U.S. Skill Intensity: Shedding Light on Worker’s Inequality

Grigoris Zarotiadis and Lynn Riggs

05-30: The Role of Retail Chains: National, Regional, and Industry Results

Ron Jarmin, Shawn Klimek and Javier Miranda

05-29: The Industry Life Cycle and Acquisitions and Investment: Does Firm Organization Matter?

Vojislav Maksimovic and Gordon Phillips

05-28: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Firm Entry, Exit and Product Quality: The Case of the Child Care Market

V. Joseph Hotz and Mo Xiao

05-27: Contributions to Health Insurance Premiums: When Does the Employer Pay 100 Percent?

Alice Zawacki and Amy Taylor

05-26: Using Census Business Data to Augment the MEPS-IC

Kristin McCue and Alice Zawacki

05-25: What Has Been Capitalized into Property Values: Human Capital, Social Capital, or Cultural Capital?

Shihe Fu

05-24: Smart Cafe Cities: Testing Human Capital Externalities in the Boston Metropolitan Area

Shihe Fu

05-23: Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes

Giorgio Topa, Stephen Ross and Patrick Bayer

05-22: Product Choice and Product Switching

Stephen Redding, Andrew Bernard and Peter Schott

05-21: Factor Price Equality and the Economies of the United States

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

05-20: Importers, Exporters, and Multinationals: A Portrait of Firms in the U.S. that Trade Goods

J. Jensen, Andrew Bernard and Peter Schott

05-19: Survival of the Best Fit: Exposure to Low-Wage Countries and the (Uneven) Growth of U.S. Manufacturing Plants

J. Jensen, Andrew Bernard and Peter Schott

05-18: Firm Structure, Multinationals, and Manufacturing Plant Deaths

J. Jensen and Andrew Bernard

05-17: Where Do Manufacturing Firms Locate Their Headquarters?

J. Vernon Henderson and Yukako Ono

05-16: Quality Sorting and Networking: Evidence from the Advertising Agency Industry

Mohammad Arzaghi

05-15: Networking Off Madison Avenue

J. Vernon Henderson and Mohammad Arzaghi

05-14: Effect of Volatility Change on Product Diversification

Namsuk Kim

05-13: Public Disclosure of Private Information as a Tool for Regulating Environmental Emissions: Firm-Level Responses by Petroleum Refineries to the Toxics Release Inventory

Linda Bui

05-12: Poverty Estimates for Places in the United States

Daniel Weinberg

05-11: Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?

Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and Chad Syverson

05-10: The Industry Life-Cycle of the Size Distribution of Firms

Glenn MacDonald and Emin Dinlersoz

05-09: How is Value Created in Spin-Offs? A Look Inside the Black Box

Debarshi Nandy and Thomas Chemmanur

05-08: Alternative Measures of Income Poverty and the Anti-Poverty Effects of Taxes and Transfers

Daniel Weinberg

05-07: Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey

Robert Fairlie and Alicia Robb

05-06: Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital

Robert Fairlie and Alicia Robb

05-05: The Long-Term Effects of Job Mobility on the Adult Earnings of Young Men: Evidence from Integrated Employer-Employee Data

Javier Miranda

05-04: Immigration, Skill Mix, and the Choice of Technique

Ethan Lewis

05-03: Assessing Multi-Dimensional Performance: Environmental and Economic Outcomes

Ron Shadbegian and Wayne Gray

05-02: Micro and Macro Data Integration: The Case of Capital

Randy Becker, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, Shawn Klimek and Daniel Wilson

05-01: Computer Investment, Computer Networks and Productivity

Sang Nguyen and Barbara Atrostic

04-20: IT and Beyond: The Contribution of Heterogenous Capital to Productivity

Daniel Wilson

04-19: Investment Behavior of U.S. Firms Over Heterogenous Capital Goods: A Snapshot

Daniel Wilson

04-18: The Myth of Decline: A New Perspective on the Supply Chain and Changing Inventory-Sales Ratios

Adam Fein

04-17: Firm Entry and Exit in the U.S. Retail Sector, 1977-1997

Javier Miranda, Shawn Klimek and Ron Jarmin

04-16: Prices, Spatial Competition, and Heterogeneous Producers: An Empirical Test

Chad Syverson

04-15: Agglomeration, Enterprise Size, and Productivity

Edward Feser

04-14: A Flexible Test for Agglomeration Economies in Two U.S. Manufacturing Industries

Edward Feser

04-13: Tracing the Sources of Local External Economies

Edward Feser

04-12: Entrant Experience and Plant Exit

Mark Roberts, Shawn Klimek and Timothy Dunne

04-11: The Effects of Low-Valued Transactions on the Quality of U.S. International Export Estimates: 1994-1998

Charles Ian Mead

04-10: Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation

David Cutler, Edward Glaeser and Jacob Vigdor

04-09: A Change of PACE: Comparing the 1994 and 1999 Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures Surveys

Ron Shadbegian and Randy Becker

04-08: Productivity Growth Patterns in U.S. Food Manufacturing: Case of Dairy Products Industry

Pinar Celikkol and Spiro Stefanou

04-07: Hierarchies, Specialization, and the Utilization of Knowledge: Theory and Evidence from the Legal Services Industry

Thomas Hubbard and Luis Garicano

04-06: Location, Location, Location: The 3L Approach to House Price Determination

Jeffrey Zabel and Katherine Kiel

04-05: Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogenous Labor: Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Dataset

Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark

04-04: Productivity Growth Patterns in U.S. Food Manufacturing: Case of Meat Products Industry

Pinar Celikkol and Spiro Stefanou

04-03: Spatial Organization of Firms: The Decision to Split Production and Administration

Kristin Aarland, James Davis, J. Vernon Henderson and Yukako Ono

04-02: The Agglomeration of Headquarters

J. Vernon Henderson and James Davis