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 …

We describe the construction and assessment of a new matched employer-employee data set, the 1990 Decennial Employer … work in the 1990 Standard Statistical Establishment List. The resulting data set is much larger and more representative … across regional and industry dimensions than previous matched data sets for the United States. The known strengths and …

by examining manufacturing plants' practices of outsourcing business services, by using plant-level data from the 1992 …

and economic cost in a number of major manufacturing industries. Previous research has suggested that an incremental $1 of … increases in reported costs may overstate the actual increase in economic cost. Our results are based a large plant-level data … environmental regulation. Little is known, however, about how well reported expenditures relate to true economic cost. True economic …

activity in the U.S. Plant-level data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research Database is used to identify new plant …

Recent research indicates that estimates of the effect of research and development (R&D) on total factor productivity … growth are sensitive to different measures of total factor productivity. In this paper, we use establishment level data for … the flat glass industry extracted from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research Database (LRD) to construct three …

association with alternative measures of economic performance is approximately the same. Nevertheless, the perpetual inventory …

of residence. Then, using origin county macro-structural variables (derived from the Economic Census microdata) and …This research analyzes the effect of community structure upon individuals' probabilities of moving between 1985 and … 1990. Using the full Census sample long form microdata for 1990, we re-allocate adult persons in 1990 to their 1985 county …