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longitudinal data. The new Longitudinal Establishment and Enterprise Microdata (LEEM) are tremendously rich data that open up … nature of these data, the file is located at the Center for Economic Studies in the U.S. Bureau of the Census. To access the … data, researchers must submit an acceptable proposal to CES and become sworn Census researchers. This paper describes the …
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constructing and exploiting a unique Linked Employee-Employer data set containing longitudinal worker and plant information. We …
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This paper investigates the motives for mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. meat products industry from1977-92. Results show that acquired meat and poultry plants were highly productive before mergers, and that meat plants significantly improved productivity growth in the post-merger periods,...
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-specific information from the Regional Economic Information System (REIS). Special versions of the SEDF and CPS files that identify county … of residence are used. The study regresses the low-skill wage and employment data from the SEDF and CPS files on a set of …. Estimates from the regressions are then combined with the available employment data from the REIS to impute wage and employment …
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the "most micro level," the product level. Linking industries should be accomplished by reclassifying product data of each … establishment to a standard system, reassigning the primary activity of the establishment, reaggregating the data to the industry … level, and then making the desired statistical comparison (Ryten, 1991). This paper discusses linking the data at the very …
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Using a new dataset on technology usage in U.S. manufacturing plants, this paper describes how technology usage varies by plant and firm characteristics. The paper extends the previous literature in three important ways. First, it examines a wide range of relatively new technologies. Second, the...
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regulation for plants in three industries (paper, oil, and steel). We examine data from 1979 to 1990, considering both total …
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factor proportions in the data. Indeed, foreign technology and trade have the same effect on wages at different skill levels …
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performance -- productivity and establishment growth -- over the 1992 to 1997 period. We use untapped firm and establishment micro … data from the Censuses of Retail Trade and the Assets and Expenditures Survey. We show that large firms account for most …
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turn, potentially affect the performance of the entire economy, including economic growth, productivity, prices, employment …, trade, and the structures of businesses, regions, and markets. Evaluating these assertions, and their effects on economic … information to current data collection programs, and notes relevant measurement issues. Some of the required information about the …
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