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98-20: THE IMPACT OF STATE URBAN ENTERPRISE ZONES ON BUSINESS OUTCOMES*

Robert T Greenbaum and John B Engberg

98-19: LOCALIZED EFFECTS OF CALIFORNIA'S MILITARY BASE REALIGNMENTS: EVIDENCE FROM MULTI-SECTOR LONGITUDINAL MICRODATA

C.J. Krizan

98-18: NEW EVIDENCE ON SEX SEGREGATION AND SEX DIFFERENCES IN WAGES FROM MATCHED EMPLOYEE-EMPLOYER DATA*

Kenneth Troske, Kimberly N Bayard, Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark

98-17: MICROENTERPRISE AS AN EXIT ROUTE FROM POVERTY:* RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROGRAMS AND POLICY MAKERS

Timothy Bates and Lisa Servon

98-16: THE MANUFACTURING PLANT OWNERSHIP CHANGE DATABASE: ITS CONSTRUCTION AND USEFULNESS

Sang Nguyen

98-15: Mergers and Acquisitions in the United States: 1990-1994

Catherine Armington and Alicia Robb

98-14: Optimal Firm Size and the Growth of Conglomerate and Single-Industry Firms

Gordon Phillips and Vojislav Maksimovic

98-13: Exiting Self-Employment: An Analysis of Asian Immigrant-Owned Small Businesses

Timothy Bates

98-12: Aggregate Productivity Growth: Lessons From Microeconomic Evidence

John Haltiwanger, C.J. Krizan and Lucia Foster

98-11: Job Reallocation And The Business Cycle: New Facts An Old Debate

Scott Schuh and Robert Triest

98-10: The Census of Construction Industries Database

Mark A Calabria

98-9: Longitudinal Establishment And Enterprise Microdata (LEEM) Documentation

Zoltan Acs and Catherine Armington

98-8: Manufacturing Extension And Productivity Dynamics

Ron Jarmin

98-7: Labor Productivity: Structural Change and Cyclical Dynamics

Martin Neil Baily, Eric Bartelsman and John Haltiwanger

98-6: Factor Substitution In U.S. Manufacturing: Does Plant Size Matter

Sang Nguyen and Mary L Streitwieser

98-5: The Contribution Of Establishment Births And Deaths To Employment Growth

James Spletzer

98-4: Immigrant Status, Race, and Institutional Choice in Higher Education

Farley Ordovensky and Alison P Hagy

98-3: Geographic Concentration as a Dynamic Process

Guy Dumais, Glenn Ellison and Edward L Glaeser

98-2: Industrial Spillovers In Developing Countries: Plant-Level Evidence From Chile, Mexico And Morocco

C.J. Krizan

98-1: Industrial Spillovers in Developing Countries: Plant-level Evidence From Chile, Mexico, and Morocco

C.J. Krizan

97-18: Measuring The Performance Of Government Technology Programs: Lessons From Manufacturing Extension

J. Jensen and Ron Jarmin

97-17: Productivity Adjustments and Learning-by-Doing as Human Capital

James Bessen

97-16: An Applied General Equilibrium Model Of Moroccan Trade Liberalization Featuring External Economies

C.J. Krizan

97-15: The Structure of Firm R&D and the Factor Intensity of Production

James Adams

97-14: Understanding Selection Processes: Organization Determinants and Performance Outcomes

Peter Cappelli and Steffi L Wilk

97-13: The Eclipse of the U.S. Tire Industry

Raghuram Rajan, Paolo Volpin and Luigi Zingales

97-12: Are We Overstating the Economic Costs of Environmental Protection?

William Pizer, Jhih-Shyang Shih and Richard Morgenstern

97-11: The Diffusion of Modern Manufacturing Practices: Evidence from Retail-Apparel Sectors

Margaret Y Hwang and David Weil

97-10: Output Price And Markup Dispersion In Micro Data: The Roles Of Producer And Heterogeneity And Noise

Mark Roberts and Dylan Supina

97-9: Environmental Regulation, Investment Timing, and Technology Choice

Wayne Gray and Ron Shadbegian

97-8: Manufacturing Plant Location: Does State Pollution Regulation Matter?

Wayne Gray

97-7: The Silver Lining Of Rust Belt Manufacturing Decline: Killing Off Pollution Externalities

Matthew Kahn

97-6: The Rural-Urban Gap In Manufacturing Productivity And Wages: Effects Of Industry Mix And Region

Frederick Gale

97-5: Survival Patterns Among Newcomers To Franchising

Timothy Bates

97-4: Capital-Energy Substitution Revisted: New Evidence From Micro Data

Sang Nguyen and Mary L Streitwieser

97-3: Productivity Races II: The Issue of Capital Measurement

Douglas W Dwyer

97-2: Productivity Races I: Are Some Productivuty Measures Better Than Others?

Douglas W Dwyer

97-1: Survival Patterns Among Newcomers to Franchising

Timothy Bates

96-13: Business Failure In The 1992 Establishment Universe Sources Of Population Heterogeneity

Alfred R Nucci

96-12: Efficiency of Bankrupt Firms and Industry Conditions: Theory and Evidence

Gordon Phillips and Vojislav Maksimovic

96-11: Whittling Away At Productivity Dispersion Futher Notes: Persistent Dispersion or Measurement Error?

Douglas W Dwyer

96-10: Firm Performance And Evolution Empirical Regularities In The U.S. Microdata

Robert H Mcguckin and J. Jensen

96-9: Financing Small Business Creation: The Case of Chinese and Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Timothy Bates

96-8: Measuring the Impact of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership

Ron Jarmin

96-7: Technology and Jobs: Secular Changes and Cyclical Dynamics

Timothy Dunne, Kenneth Troske and John Haltiwanger

96-6: Interfirm Segregation and the Black/White Wage Gap

Kenneth Troske and William J Carrington

96-5: Learning by Doing and Plant Characteristics

Ron Jarmin

96-4: Sex Segregation in U.S. Manufacturing

Kenneth Troske and William J Carrington

96-3: ARE FIXED EFFECTS FIXED? Persistence in Plant Level Productivity

Douglas W Dwyer

96-2: The Effect Of Technology Use On Productivity Growth

Robert H Mcguckin, Mary L Streitwieser and Mark Doms