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 …

longitudinal microdata for econometric research and time series analysis. The advantages of panel data arise from both the micro …This paper has two goals. First, it illustrates the importance of panel data with examples taken from research in … progress using the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research Database ( LRD ). Although the LRD is not the result of a "true …

This paper uses the new Longitudinal Establishment and Enterprise Microdata (LEEM) at CES to investigate gross and net … Longitudinal Research Database (LRD), which is limited to establishments in the manufacturing sector. The LEEM is the first high …. We utilize the LEEM data to measure recent gross and net job flows for the entire U. S. economy. We then examine the …

exception of 1989. Fifth, the data suggest that LBOs target typical firms. The only significant pre-LBO firm characteristic was …

-establishment cells. This new data set is especially useful because earlier research on this topic relied on data sets that covered only a …We assemble a new matched employer-employee data set covering essentially all industries and occupations across all … regions of the U.S. We use this data set to re-examine the question of the relative contributions to the overall sex gap in …

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 …