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Imputing Missing Values in the US Census Bureau's County Business Patterns
Eckert, Fabian - 2020
The County Business Patterns data published by the US Census Bureau track employment by county and industry from 1946 to the present. Two features of the data limit their usefulness to researchers in practice: (1) employment for the majority of county-industry cells is suppressed to protect...
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The Early County Business Pattern Files : 1946-1974
Eckert, Fabian; Lam, Ka-leung; Mian, Atif; Mueller, Karsten - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The County Business Pattern ("CBP") files contain employment and establishment counts for detailed industry codes covering all counties in the United States. The contribution of this project is to digitize, clean, and prepare the CBP files from 1946-1974. We also apply the methods developed in...
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Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment : A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and France
Card, David - 1996
Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors like minimum wages and trade unions prevent downward wage adjustments. Some economists have argued that this insight explains the contrast between the United States, where real...
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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK
Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....
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Redesigning the Longitudinal Business Database
Chow, Melissa C.; Fort, Teresa C.; Goetz, Christopher F.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In this paper we describe the U.S. Census Bureau's redesign and production implementation of the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) first introduced by Jarmin and Miranda (2002). The LBD is used to create the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS), tabulations describing the entry, exit,...
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Factoryless Goods Producers in the US
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2013
US economy. FGPs are formally in the wholesale sector but, unlike traditional wholesale establishments, FGPs design the …
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The American economy in transition
Feldstein, Martin S. (contributor); Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1980
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The US Economic Model at Y2K : Lodestar for Advanced Capitalism?
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
to be the peak capitalist economy in the new information economy. This paper develops criterion for judging peak status … workers, continued full employment will greatly strengthen the case for the US as peak economy. But with anything less than … full employment the US economy will lose its luster. Even if this occurs, however, the US record in employing women and …
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Illuminating the Effects of the US-China Tariff War on China's Economy
Chor, Davin; Li, Bingjing - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How much has the US-China tariff war impacted economic outcomes in China? We address this question using high-frequency night lights data, together with measures of the trade exposure of fine grid locations constructed from Chinese firms' geo-coordinates. Exploiting within-grid variation over...
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Testing Long-Run Productivity Models for the Canadian and U.S. Agricultural Sectors
Capalbo, Susan M. - 1985
This paper discusses a portion of our work linking data on the agriculture sector in the United States and Canada. The purpose of this work is to explore the evolution of gains in agricultural productivity in the two countries during the post-WWII period. Comparable data has been developed for...
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