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04-01: Transitions in Welfare Participation and Female Headship

John Fitzgerald and David Ribar

03-19: Establishment and Employment Dynamics in Appalachia: Evidence from the Longitudinal Business Database

Lucia Foster

03-18: Pollution Abatement Expenditure by U.S. Manufacturing Plants: Do Community Characteristics Matter?

Randy Becker

03-17: Do Tax Incentives Affect Local Economic Growth? What Mean Impacts Miss in the Analysis of Enterprise Zone Policies

Daniele Bondonio

03-16: Pollution Abatement Expenditures and Plant-Level Productivity: A Production Function Approach

Ron Shadbegian and Wayne Gray

03-15: Regional Income Inequality and International Trade

Julie Silva and Robin Leichenko

03-14: Manufacturing Firms' Decisions Regarding Retiree Health Insurance

Patricia H Born and Alice Zawacki

03-13: Specialization, Firms, and Markets: The Division of Labor Within and Between Law Firms

Thomas N Hubbard and Luis Garicano

03-12: International Trade, Employment, and Earnings: Evidence from U.S. Rural Counties

Robin Leichenko and Julie Silva

03-11: How Workers Fare When Employers Innovate

Sandra Black, Lisa Lynch and Anya Krivelyova

03-10: What Determines Environmental Performance at Paper Mills? The Roles of Abatement Spending, Regulation, and Efficiency

Ron Shadbegian and Wayne Gray

03-09: Firms and Layoffs: The Impact of Unionization on Involuntary Job Loss

Vanessa V Tinsley

03-08: Managerial Efficiency, Organizational Capital and Productivity

Michael Gort and Seong-Hoon Lee

03-07: The Role of Technological and Industrial Heterogeneity In Technology Diffusion: a Markovian Approach

Adela Luque

03-06: Productivity, Investment in ICT and Market Experimentation: Micro Evidence from Germany and the U.S

John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Thorsten Schank

03-05: The Geographic Concentration of New Firm Formation and Human Capital: Evidence from the Cities

Zoltan Acs and Catherine Armington

03-04: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Job Training: An Empirical Exploration with Establishment Data

David Fairris and Roberto Pedace

03-03: The Impact of Welfare Waivers on Female Headship Decisions

David Ribar and John M Fitgerald

03-02: Endogenous Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities

Zoltan Acs and Catherine Armington

03-01: An Equilibrium Model of Sorting in an Urban Housing Market: A Study of the Causes and Consequences of Residential Segregation

Patrick Bayer, Robert McMillan and Kim Rueben

02-27: Human Capital Spillovers in Manufacturing: Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions

Enrico Moretti

02-26: What Drives Racial Segregation? New Evidence Using Census Microdata

Patrick Bayer, Robert McMillan and Kim Rueben

02-25: The Survival of Industrial Plants

Michael Gort, J. Jensen and Seong-Hoon Lee

02-24: Analysis of Young Small Firms That Have Closed: Delineating Successful from Unsuccessful Closures

Timothy Bates

02-23: The 1990 Decennial Employer-Employee Dataset

Kimberly Bayard, Joel Elvery, Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark

02-22: Survival of the Best Fit: Competition from Low Wage Countries and the (Uneven) Growth of U.S. Manufacturing Plants

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen and Peter Schott

02-21: The Measurement of Medicaid Coverage in the SIPP: Evidence from California, 1990-1996

David Card, Andrew KG Hildreth and Lara Shore-Sheppard

02-20: The Relationship of Personal and Neighborhood Characteristics to Immigrant Fertility

Laura E Hill and Hans P Johnson

02-19: Interactions, Neighborhood Selection, and Housing Demand

Yannis Ioannides and Jeffrey Zabel

02-18: The Link Between Aggregate and Micro Productivity Growth: Evidence from Retail Trade

C.J. Krizan, John Haltiwanger and Lucia Foster

02-17: The Longitudinal Business Database

Ron Jarmin and Javier Miranda

02-16: Leaving Home: Modeling the Effect of Civic and Economic Structure on Individual Migration Patterns

Alfred Nucci, Charles Tolbert, Troy Blanchard and Michael Irwin

02-15: The Deaths of Manufacturing Plants

J. Jensen and Andrew Bernard

02-14: IT Investment and Firm Performance in U.S. Retail Trade

Shawn Klimek, Ron Jarmin and Mark Doms

02-13: Parent-Child Bargaining, Parental Transfers, and the Postsecondary Education Decision

Charlene Kalenkoski

02-12: The Mis-Measurement of Permanent Earnings: New Evidence from Social Security Earnings Data

Bhashkar Mazumder

02-11: Earnings Mobility in the US: A New Look at Intergenerational Inequality

Bhashkar Mazumder

02-10: Estimating the Hidden Costs of Environmental Regulation

Satish Joshi, Ranjani Krishnan and Lester Lave

02-09: Redistribution in the Current U.S. Social Security System

Jeffrey Liebman

02-08: The Distributional Effects of an Investment-Based Social Security System

Martin Feldstein and Jeffrey Liebman

02-07: Mergers and Acquisitions and Productivity in the U.S. Meat Products Industries: Evidence from the Micro Data

Sang Nguyen and Michael Ollinger

02-06: The Trend to Smaller Producers in Manufacturing in Canada and the U.S

John Baldwin, Ron Jarmin and Jianmin Tang

02-05: Beyond the Incidence of Training: Evidence from a National Employers Survey

Lisa Lynch and Sandra Black

02-04: How to Compete: The Impact of Workplace Practices and Information Technology on Productivity

Lisa Lynch and Sandra Black

02-03: What's Driving the New Economy? The Benefits of Workplace Innovation

Sandra Black and Lisa Lynch

02-02: The Role of Cities: Evidence From the Placement of Sales Offices

Thomas Holmes

02-01: Computer Networks and U.S. Manufacturing Plant Productivity: New Evidence from the CNUS Data

Barbara Atrostic and Sang Nguyen

01-19: Civic Community in Small-Town America: How Civic Welfare is Influenced by Local Capitalism and Civic Engagement

Thomas A Lyson, Michael D Irwin, Charles M Tolbert and Alfred R Nucci

01-18: When Do Firms Shift Production Across States to Avoid Environmental Regulation?

Ron Shadbegian and Wayne Gray

01-17: Marshall's Scale Economies

J. Vernon Henderson