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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

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