for the period 1977-87. Our analysis is based on both firm and plant level data taken from the U. S. Census Bureau … firm level data are used for the analysis. This suggests that firm level data hide important dynamic activities within the … firm. Thus, plant level data are necessary for studying the structure and performance of firms over time. …

of microdata in statistical surveys. These data are valuable for economic research and market and policy analysis …. However, the data cannot be released to the public because of confidentiality commitments to individual respondents. These … releasing public use microdata. Most proposals for public use microdata call for the development of surrogate data that disguise …

growth are sensitive to different measures of total factor productivity. In this paper, we use establishment level data for …

use plant-level data for the entire U.S. manufacturing for the period 1977-87 to examine the effects of ownership changes …

and a learning curve. The model is estimated using establishment level data from a non-regulated industry that underwent a … technological shift in the time period covered by the data. The learning curve resulted in more plausible estimates of technical …

of 28,294 plants taken from the U.S. Bureau of the Census' Longitudinal Research Database ( LRD ). The data set provides …

We use micro data for 10,412 U.S. manufacturing plants to estimate the degrees of factor substitution by industry and …

We use new micro data for 11,520 plants taken from the Census Bureau=s 1991 Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey … have been used as a standard measure of substitution -- are sensitive to varying data sets and levels of aggregation. In … -- are more robust (except when two-digit level data are used). The results support the views that (i) the Morishima …

's current structure. While the individual establishment is our basic data unit, in this study we aggregate the activities of the …