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Troske, Kenneth R; Carrington, William J - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1992

previous research on interfirm segregation has studied only large firms and because it is easier to link the demographic …

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Interactions, Neighborhood Selection, and Housing Demand

Ioannides, Yannis M; Zabel, Jeffrey E - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2002

This paper contributes to the growing literature that identifies and measures the impact of social context on individual economic behavior. We develop a model of housing demand with neighborhood e®ects and neighborhood choice. Modelling neighborhood choice is of fundamental importance in...

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Plant Vintage, Technology, and Environmental Regulation

Gray, Wayne B; Shadbegian, Ronald J - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2001

Does the impact of environmental regulation differ by plant vintage and technology? We answer this question using … annual Census Bureau information on 116 pulp and paper mills’ vintage, technology, productivity, and pollution abatement … include our technology, vintage, and renovation variables. Sample calculations of the impact of pollution abatement on …

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The Role of Technological and Industrial Heterogeneity In Technology Diffusion: a Markovian Approach

Luque, Adela - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2003

innovation and other outcomes. This paper examines the role of industry and technology heterogeneity in the diffusion of advanced … probabilities and corresponding half-lives, look for outliers in technology and industry diffusion patterns, and try to find … explanations of their unusual behavior in idiosyncratic technology and industry characteristics. A consistent industry …

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Environmental Regulation And Manufacturing Productivity At The Plant Level

Gray, Wayne B; Shadbegian, Ronald J - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1993

steel). We combine productivity data from the Longitudinal Research Database ( LRD ) with pollution abatement expenditures …

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Earnings Mobility in the US: A New Look at Intergenerational Inequality

Mazumder, Bhashkar - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2002

fathers and sons is estimated to be around 0.6 implying significantly less mobility in the U.S. than previous research …

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The Characteristics of Business Owners Database, 1992

Headd, Brian - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1999

This report describes the Characteristics of Business Owners (CBO), 1992 microdata available to researchers at the Center for Economic Studies and the CBO survey. The Bureau of the Census has conducted the 1982, 1987, and 1992 CBOs for the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Minority...

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The Silver Lining Of Rust Belt Manufacturing Decline: Killing Off Pollution Externalities

Kahn, Matthew E - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1997

This paper expoloits a unique merger of air quality and county manufacturing data to quantify manufacturing's pollution externality by industry. By linking pollution to local production, I estimate cross-sectional pollution production regressions. Rust Belt cities that were endowed with the...

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Business Success: Factors Leading to Surviving and Closing Successfully

Headd, Brian - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2001

This paper focuses on the startup factors that lead to new firms remaining open, and if they close, the factors leading to whether the owner considered the firm successful at closure. Two independent logit models were developed for closure and success characteristics using the Bureau of the...

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The Classification of Manufacturing Industries: an Input-Based Clustering of Activity

III, Thomas A Abbott; Andrews, Stephen H - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1990

The classification and aggregation of manufacturing data is vital for the analysis and reporting of economic activity. Most organizations and researchers use the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system for this purpose. This is, however, not the only option. Our paper examines an...

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