of microdata in statistical surveys. These data are valuable for economic research and market and policy analysis … commitments, coupled with the strong research demand for microdata, have led the agencies to consider various proposals for … releasing public use microdata. Most proposals for public use microdata call for the development of surrogate data that disguise …

. This study expands on previous research by including potentially important policy-related measures to the more limited set …

Census Bureau's O±ce of the Chief Economist to thoroughly reexamine the link between the historical and current measures of …The Survey of Plant Capacity (SPC) is the primary source of data used to construct the Federal Reserve's manufacturing … that are consistent over time. The object of this study is to take advantage of plant-level data that is available at the …

and deaths turns out to be an exercise in how to use cross-sectional administrative data for longitudinal research …, and net employment growth at different frequencies of measurement. The longitudinal data are constructed from quarterly … unemployment insurance microdata, and are essentially a census of establishments in all industries. Defining establishment births …

of the most frequently modeled externalities have either not been measured or have been estimated with data too aggregate … to be informative. In this paper, plant-level longitudinal data from Chile, Mexico and Morocco allow me to provide some … of the first micro evidence on several types of external economies from plant-level production functions. The results …

,500-20,000). The data on small towns are drawn from public-use files and from confidential microdata from various economic censuses … contribute to the residents’ social and economic well-being; and, second, to move beyond previous research that used larger … rates. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of working with place-level data and suggest some strategies for …

This research examines whether state industrial growth over the past decade has occurred independently of changes in … manufacturing exports and whether export employment growth responds to the same economic and locational forces as employment growth … suggest the need for additional research on the sources of state comparative advantage in export markets. …

workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. . We find support to the idea that U.S. businesses engage in …

economic development tool for fostering minority business development, or it can promote MBE front companies that pass on their …