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09-15: Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services

Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst Berndt, James Davis and Alvin Silk

09-14: Estimating the "True" Cost of Job Loss: Evidence Using Matched Data from Califormia 1991-2000

Till von Wachter, Elizabeth Handwerker and Andrew Hildreth

09-13: Firms' Exporting Behavior under Quality Constraints

Juan Hallak and Jagadeesh Sivadasan

09-12: The Micro-Dynamics of Skill Mix Changes in a Dual Labor Market: The Spanish Manufacturing Experience

Adela Luque and C.J. Krizan

09-11: Concording U.S. Harmonized System Categories Over Time

Justin Pierce and Peter Schott

09-10: Complex Survey Questions and the Impact of Enumeration Procedures: Census/American Community Survey Disability Questions

Andrew Houtenville, William Erickson and Melissa Bjelland

09-09: Exploring Differences in Employment between Household and Establishment Data

Katharine Abraham, John Haltiwanger, Kristin Sandusky and James Spletzer

09-08: Employer Health Benefit Costs and Demand for Part-Time Labor

Jennifer Feenstra Schultz and David Doorn

09-07: Credit Market Competition and the Nature of Firms

Nicola Cetorelli

09-06: Trends in Regional Industrial Concentration in the United States

Joshua Drucker

09-05: Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach

Stephen Jenkins, Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Jeff Larrimore

09-04: Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Pete Klenow

09-03: Spatial Influences on the Employment of U.S. Hispanics: Spatial Mismatch, Discrimination, or Immigrant Networks?

Judith Hellerstein, Melissa McInerney and David Neumark

09-02: Bank Crises and Investor Confidence

Una Osili and Anna Paulson

09-01: Neighbors and Co-Workers: The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks

Judith Hellerstein, Melissa McInerney and David Neumark

08-41: Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices

Ali Hortacsu and Chad Syverson

08-40: Manufacturing Plants' Use of Temporary Workers: An Analysis Using Census Micro Data

Yukako Ono and Daniel Sullivan

08-39: Gender Differences in Business Performance: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey

Robert Fairlie and Alicia Robb

08-38: Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality Using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data: The Value of Including Variances and Cell Means When Imputing Topcoded Values

Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Jeff Larrimore

08-37: Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

Edward Glaeser and William Kerr

08-36: Linking Investment Spikes and Productivity Growth: U.S. Food Manufacturing Industry

Pinar Geylani and Spiro Stefanou

08-35: The Effects of Smoking in Young Adulthood on Smoking and Health Later in Life: Evidence Based on the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery

Daniel Eisenberg and Brian Rowe

08-34: The Green Industry: An Examination of Environmental Products Manufacturing

Randy Becker and Ron Shadbegian

08-33: Productivity Dispersion and Input Prices: The Case of Electricity

Steven Davis, Cheryl Grim and John Haltiwanger

08-32: A Comparison of Employee Benefits Data from the MEPS-IC and Form 5500

Kristin McCue

08-31: The Direct and Indirect Costs of Food Safety Regulation

Michael Ollinger

08-30: Computer Network Use and Firms' Productivity Performance: The United States vs. Japan

Barbara Atrostic, Kazuyuki Motohashi and Sang Nguyen

08-29: Transfer Pricing by U.S.-Based Multinational Firms

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen and Peter Schott

08-28: An Analysis of Key Differences in Micro Data: Results from the Business List Comparison Project

Kristin Fairman, Lucia Foster, C.J. Krizan and Ian Rucker

08-27: Choices of Metropolitan Destinations by the 1995-2000 New Immigrants Born in Mexico and India: Characterization and Multivariate Explanation

Kao-Lee Liaw and William Frey

08-26: Business Volatility, Job Destruction, and Unemployment

Steven Davis, Jason Faberman, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Javier Miranda

08-25: Estimating Trends in U.S. Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring

Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen Jenkins and Jeff Larrimore

08-24: Multi-Product Firms and Product Switching

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

08-23: Supersize It: The Growth of Retail Chains and the Rise of the "Big Box" Retail Format

Emek Basker, Shawn Klimek and Van Pham

08-22: Products and Productivity

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

08-21: Health-Related Research Using Confidential U.S. Census Bureau Data

Rosemary Hyson and Alice Zawacki

08-20: The Going Public Decision and the Product Market

Thomas Chemmanur, Shan He and Debarshi Nandy

08-19: The Effect of Power Plants on Local Housing Values and Rents: Evidence from Restricted Census Microdata

Lucas Davis

08-18: Using Internal Current Population Survey Data to Reevaluate Trends in Labor Earnings Gaps by Gender, Race, and Education Level

Richard Burkhauser and Jeff Larrimore

08-17: Entry, Exit, and Plant-Level Dynamics over the Business Cycle

Yoonsoo Lee and Toshihiko Mukoyama

08-16: How Does Venture Capital Financing Improve Efficiency in Private Firms? A Look Beneath the Surface

Thomas Chemmanur, Karthik Krishnan and Debarshi Nandy

08-15: You Can Take it With You: Proposition 13 Tax Benefits, Residential Mobility, and Willingness to Pay for Housing Amenities

Fernando Ferreira

08-14: Market Forces, Plant Technology, and the Food Safety Technology Use

Michael Ollinger and Danna Moore

08-13: On the Lifecycle Dynamics of Venture-Capital- and Non-Venture-Capital-Financed Firms

Manju Puri and Rebecca Zarutskie

08-12: Neighborhood Effects on High-School Drop-Out Rates and Teenage Childbearing: Tests for Non-Linearities, Race-Specific Effects, Interactions with Family Characteristics, and Endogenous Causation using Geocoded California Census Microdata

Rhiannon Patterson

08-11: Analysis of Young Neighborhood Firms Serving Urban Minority Clients

Timothy Bates and Alicia Robb

08-10: Horizontal Diversification and Vertical Contracting: Firm Scope and Asset Ownership in Taxi Fleets

Evan Rawley and Timothy Simcoe

08-09: A Warm Embrace or the Cold Shoulder: Wage and Employment Outcomes in Ethnic Enclaves

Roberto Pedace and Stephanie Rohn

08-08: The Efficiency of Internal Capital Markets: Evidence from the Annual Capital Expenditure Survey

Sumit Agarwal, Victor Souphom and Guy Yamashiro

08-07: Private Equity and Employment

Steven Davis, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner and Javier Miranda