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17-22: Multinationals Offshoring, and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing

Christoph Boehm, Aaron Flaaen and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar

17-21: Brighter Prospects? Assessing the Franchise Advantage using Census Data

Francine Lafontaine, Marek Zapletal and Xu Zhang

17-20: The Effects of Occupational Licensing Evidence from Detailed Business-Level Data

Marek Zapletal

17-19: Destructive Creation at Work: How Financial Distress Spurs Entrepreneurship

Tania Babina

17-18: Going Entrepreneurial? IPOs and New Firm Creation

Tania Babina, Paige Ouimet and Rebecca Zarutskie

17-17: Declining Dynamism, Allocative Efficiency, and the Productivity Slowdown

Ryan Decker, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Javier Miranda

17-16: Bankruptcy Spillovers

Shai Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Xavier Giroud and Benjamin Iverson

17-15: Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire: Employment Dynamics with Asymmetric Responses to News

Cosmin Ilut, Matthias Kehrig and Martin Schneider

17-14: Do Firms Mitigate or Magnify Capital Misallocation? Evidence from Plant-Level Data

Matthias Kehrig and Nicolas Vincent

17-13: R&D, Attrition and Multiple Imputation in BRDIS

Juana Sanchez and Sydney Noelle Kahmann

17-12: Public-Use vs. Restricted-Use: An Analysis Using the American Community Survey

Satkartar K. Kinney and Alan F. Karr

17-11: Labor Reallocation, Employment, and Earnings: Vector Autoregression Evidence

Henry Hyatt and Tucker McElroy

17-10: Geography in Reduced Form

Oren Ziv

17-09: Locked In? The Enforceability of Covenants Not to Compete and the Careers of High-Tech Workers

Natarajan Balasubramanian, Jin Woo Chang, Mariko Sakakibara, Jagadeesh Sivadasan and Evan Starr

17-08: Job-to-Job Flows and Earnings Growth*

Joyce K. Hahn, Henry Hyatt, Hubert Janicki and Stephen R. Tibbets

17-07: Consequences of the Clean Water Act and the Demand for Water Quality

David A. Keiser and Joseph Shapiro

17-06: Estimating market power Evidence from the US Brewing Industry

Jan De Loecker and Paul T. Scott

17-05: Industrial Investments in Energy Efficiency: A Good Idea?

Mary Jialin Li

17-04: How Destructive is Innovation?

Daniel Garcia-Macia, Chang-Tai Hsieh and Pete Klenow

17-03: Redistribution of Local Labor Market Shocks through Firms’ Internal Networks

Xavier Giroud and Holger M. Mueller

17-02: State Taxation and the Reallocation of Business Activity: Evidence from Establishment-Level Data

Xavier Giroud and Joshua Rauh

17-01: Firm Leverage, Consumer Demand, and Employment Losses during the Great Recession

Xavier Giroud and Holger M. Mueller

16-58: Food and Agricultural Industries: Opportunities for Improving Measurement and Reporting

Richard Dunn and Brent Hueth

16-57: Hires and Separations in Equilibrium

Edward Lazear and Kristin McCue

16-56: The Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Native Workers: Evidence using Longitudinal Data from the LEHD

Ted Mouw

16-55: Business Dynamics Statistics of High Tech Industries

Nathan Goldschlag and Javier Miranda

16-54: Making a Motivated Manager: A Census Data Investigation into Efficiency Differences Between Franchisee and Franchisor-Owned Restaurants

Matthew Sveum and Michael Sykuta

16-53: The Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS): Cognitive Testing*

Catherine Buffington, Kenny Herrell and Scott Ohlmacher

16-52: Measuring Plant Level Energy Efficiency and Technical Change in the U.S. Metal-Based Durable Manufacturing Sector Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Gale Boyd and Jonathan Lee

16-51: WHITE-LATINO RESIDENTIAL ATTAINMENTS AND SEGREGATION IN SIX CITIES: ASSESSING THE ROLE OF MICRO-LEVEL FACTORS

Amber Fox Crowell and Mark Fossett

16-50: Measuring Cross-Country Differences in Misallocation

Martin Rotemberg and T. Kirk White

16-49: High Growth Young Firms: Contribution to Job, Output and Productivity Growth

John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, Robert Kulick and Javier Miranda

16-48: Taking the Leap: The Determinants of Entrepreneurs Hiring their First Employee

Robert Fairlie and Javier Miranda

16-47: Are firm-level idiosyncratic shocks important for U.S. aggregate volatility?

Chen Yeh

16-46: Wage Determination in Social Occupations: the Role of Individual Social Capital

Julie Hotchkiss and Anil Rupasingha

16-45: Entrepreneurial teams' acquisition of talent: a two-sided approach

Florence Honore and Martin Ganco

16-44: Interstate Migration and Employer-to-Employer Transitions in the U.S.: New Evidence from Administrative Records Data

Henry Hyatt, Erika McEntarfer, Ken Ueda and Alexandria Zhang

16-43: Evidence for the Effects of Mergers on Market Power and Efficiency

Bruce Blonigen and Justin Pierce

16-42: Does Higher Productivity Dispersion Imply Greater Misallocation?A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

J. David Brown, Emin Dinlersoz and John Earle

16-41: A Portrait of Firms that Invest in R&D

Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim and Nikolas Zolas

16-40: The Consequences of Long Term Unemployment: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data*

Katharine Abraham, Kristin Sandusky, John Haltiwanger and James Spletzer

16-39: The Timing of Teenage Births: Estimating the Effect on High School Graduation and Later Life Outcomes

Danielle Sandler and Lisa Schulkind

16-38: The Role of Start-Ups in StructuralTransformation

Robert C. Dent, Fatih Karahan, Benjamin Pugsley and Aysegul Sahin

16-37: Disconnected Geography: A Spatial Analysis of Disconnected Youth in the United States

Jeremy Bray, Brooks Depro, Dorren McMahon, Marion Siegle and Lee Mobley

16-36: Bright Minds, Big Rent: Gentrification and the Rising Returns to Skill

Lena Edlund, Cecilia Machado and Maria Sviatschi

16-35: Introduction of Head Start and Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Cuiping Long

16-34: THE IMPACT OF LATINO-OWNED BUSINESS ON LOCAL ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE

Craig Carpenter

16-33: THE DYNAMICS OF LATINO-OWNED BUSINESS WITH COMPARISIONS TO OTHER ETHNICITIES

Craig Carpenter

16-32: Research Funding and Regional Economies

Nathan Goldschlag, Stefano Bianchini, Julia Lane, Joseba SanMartin Sola and Bruce Weinberg

16-31: Creditor Rights and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Fraudulent Transfer Law*

Nuri Ersahin, Rustom M. Irani and Katherine Waldock