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Firms and Layoffs: The Impact of Unionization on Involuntary Job Loss

Tinsley, Vanessa V - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2003

This paper focuses on the impact of unionization on involuntary job loss using establishment data from the 1997 … National Employer Survey (NES-II) and merging those data with contextual data at the industry level as well as with local labor … market data. The estimated logit models included information on unionization rates and employment security provisions present …

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Market Structure and Productivity: A Concrete Example

Syverson, Chad - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2001

This paper shows that imperfect output substitutability explains part of the observed persistent plant-level productivity dispersion. Specifically, as substitutability in a market increases, the market’s productivity distribution exhibits falling dispersion and higher central tendency. The...

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How Workers Fare When Employers Innovate

Black, Sandra E; Lynch, Lisa M; Krivelyova, Anya - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2003

Complementing existing work on firm organizational structure and productivity, this paper examines the impact of organizational change on workers. We find evidence that employers do appear to compensate at least some of their workers for engaging in high performance workplace practices. We also...

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The Relationship of Personal and Neighborhood Characteristics to Immigrant Fertility

Hill, Laura E; Johnson, Hans P - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2002

We find that fertility varies by immigrant generation, with significant declines between the first and subsequent generations for groups with large immigrant population. However, we find that personal characteristics--such as educational attainment, marital status, and income levels--are much...

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The Impact of Welfare Waivers on Female Headship Decisions

Ribar, David C; Fitgerald, John M - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2003

reform waivers on those decisions while controlling for confounding local economic and social contextual conditions. We pool … influences. Based on data through 1995, we find limited evidence that workencouraging waivers had a beneficial effect by reducing …

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Differences in Job Growth and Persistence in Services and Manufacturing

Armington, Catherine; Acs, Zoltan - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2000

Employment flows in services have greatly exceeded those in manufacturing over the recent decade. We examine these differences and their variation over establishment sizes and types. We test three hypotheses which have been offered to explain these differences: (1) that the difference in...

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Output Market Segmentation and Productivity

Syverson, Chad - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2001

Recent empirical investigations have shown enormous plant-level productivity heterogeneity, even within narrowly defined industries. Most of the theoretical explanations for this have focused on factors that influence the production process, such as idiosyncratic technology shocks or input price...

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Learning By Doing And Competition In The Early Rayon Industry

Jarmin, Ron - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1993

implications of learning. I estimate the model with firm level data from the early U.S. rayon industry. The empirical results show …

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The Measurement of Medicaid Coverage in the SIPP: Evidence from California, 1990-1996

Card, David; Hildreth, Andrew KG; Shore-Sheppard, Lara D - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2002

) using a unique data set formed by matching SIPP survey responses to administrative records from the State of California …

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The Impact Of Ownership Change On Employment, Wages, And Labor Productivity In U.S. Manufacturing 1977-87

Nguyen, Sang V; Mcguckin, Robert H; Reznek, Arnold P - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1995

for the period 1977-87. Our analysis is based on both firm and plant level data taken from the U. S. Census Bureau …'s Longitudinal Research Database (LRD). Three principal results emerge from the analysis. First, ownership change is positively … firm level data are used for the analysis. This suggests that firm level data hide important dynamic activities within the …

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