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06-25: Explaining Cyclical Movements in Employment: Creative-Destruction or Changes in Utilization?

Andrew Figura

06-24: Why Are Plant Deaths Countercyclical: Reallocation Timing or Fragility?

Andrew Figura

06-23: The Impact of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma on Business Establishments: A GIS Approach

Javier Miranda and Ron Jarmin

06-22: Do Alternative Opportunities Matter? The Role of Female Labor Markets in the Decline of Teacher Quality

Marigee Bacolod

06-21: Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices

Ali Hortacsu and Chad Syverson

06-20: The Dynamics of Plant-Level Productivity in U.S. Manufacturing

Arpad Abraham and T. Kirk White

06-19: The Production Decisions of Large Competitors: Detecting Cost Advantages and Strategic Behavior in Restaurants

Clarissa Yeap

06-18: Residual Claims and Incentives in Restaurant Chains

Clarissa Yeap

06-17: Volatility and Dispersion in Business Growth Rates: Publicly Traded Versus Privately Held Firms

Steven Davis, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Javier Miranda

06-16: E-Tailing and its Prospects: Great Expectations Reconsidered

Jeffrey Mayer

06-15: How Businesses Use Information Technology: Insights for Measuring Technology and Productivity

Sang Nguyen and Barbara Atrostic

06-14: The Impact of Local Labor Market Conditions on the Demand for Education: Evidence from Indian Casinos

William Evans and Wooyoung Kim

06-13: Using the MEPS-IC to Study Retiree Health Insurance

Alice Zawacki

06-12: Impacts of Trade on Wage Inequality in Los Angeles: Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data

David Rigby and Sebastien Breau

06-11: Measuring Poverty in the United States: History and Current Issues

Daniel Weinberg

06-10: Downsizing, Layoffs and Plant Closure: The Impacts of Import Price Pressure and Technological Growth on U.S. Textile Producers

Patrick Conway

06-09: Import Price Pressure on Firm Productivity and Employment: The Case of U.S. Textiles

Patrick Conway

06-08: Plant Turnover and Demand Fluctuations in the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry

Allan Collard-Wexler

06-07: The Effects of Outsourcing on the Elasticity of Labor Demand

Mine Senses

06-06: Is There Really an Export Wage Premium? A Case Study of Los Angeles Using Matched Employee-Employer Data

Sébastien Breau and David L. Rigby

06-05: The Work Disincentive Effects of the Disability Insurance Program in the 1990s

Susan Chen and Wilbert van der Klaauw

06-04: Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses: Integrating the Employer and Nonemployer Universes

Javier Miranda, Alfred Nucci, Steven Davis, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, C.J. Krizan and Kristin Sandusky

06-03: Reallocation and Productivity Dynamics in the Appalachian Region

Lucia Foster

06-02: Outstanding Outsourcers: A Firm- and Plant-Level Analysis of Production Sharing

Christopher Johann Kurz

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