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2009 Joint U.S.-Canadian Census Research Data Center Conference

Research Presentations from the October 5th Conference    



Special Presentation

Social Science Gateway  

John M. Abowd and Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University
      


Studying Migrants and Migration in Canada and the U.S.: Evidence from National Census Data

 

Son Preference and the Role of Culture: Evidence from Asian Immigrants to Canada 

Douglas Almond, Columbia University    

Lena Edlund, Columbia University

Kevin Milligan, University of British Columbia

 

Will They Stay? Out-Migration from New Destinations   

Mary M. Kritz, Development Sociology, Cornell University

Douglas T. Gurak, Development Sociology and Director, Polson Institute for Global Development, Cornell University

Min-Ah Lee, Institute for Social Development and Policy Research, Seoul National University

      

                                                                                                               

Determinants of Productivity     
                                                                            

The Impact of Plant-level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth     

Kirk White, Economic Research Service, USDA                                                                                 

Amil Petrin, University of Minnesota

Jerome Reiter, Duke University

 

*Knowledge Acquisition, Communication, and Workplace Organization: Establishment Level Evidence from Canada

Tat-kei Lai, University of Toronto

 

                                                                                                                             

Measuring Health, Health Insurance, and Health Outcomes in Canada and the U.S.

Changes in Obesity Prevalence in Canada   

Ye Tao, Concordia University

 

*The Relationship between Medical Expenditure and Health Outcome for General Population in United States

Meiying Han, Stony Brook University

John A. Rizzo, Stony Brook University

 

*Impact of State Health Insurance Mandates on Self Insurance, 1997-2005

Kosali Simon, Cornell University

Philip Cooper, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Center for Financing Access and Cost Trends, Rockville, MD

Ginger Jin, University of Maryland

 

 

Studies of Labor Market Mobility                                                                          

                           

How Important is Endogenous Mobility for Measuring Employer and Employee Heterogeneity?  

John Abowd, Cornell University

Kevin  McKinney, Census Bureau

Ian Schmutte, Cornell University and Census Bureau

 

Immigrant-Native Differences in Earnings: Mobility Process: Evidence from Canadian and Danish Data     

Rayhaneh Esmaeilzadeh, Concordia University, Canada

Nisar Ahmad, Aarhus University, Denmark

 

Who Leaves, to Go Where, and Does it Matter? Employee Mobility, Employee Entrepreneurship and the Effects on Parent Firm Performance     

Benjamin A. Campbell, Ohio State University

Martin Ganco, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

April M. Franco, University of Toronto

Rajshree Agarwal, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

                                                       

 

Using Confidential Data to Improve Social Science Measurement

 

The Impact of Response Bias on changing defined contribution pension participation and contribution amounts, 1998 and 2006     


Howard Iams, Social Security Administration

Irena Dushi, Social Security Administration

 

*Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA:  Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data


Jeff Larrimore, Cornell University

Richard V. Burkhauser, Cornell University

Shuaizhang Feng, Princeton University

Stephen Jenkins, University of Essex

 

Spillovers in the Determination of Earnings                                                                    

             

Spillovers and wage determination within firms      

Kerry L. Papps, Nuffield College

 

Job Referral Networks and the Dispersion of Earnings in Local Labor Markets  

Ian Schmutte, Cornell University and Census Bureau

                                                                                                               

                                                       

The Nature, Determinants and Effects of Employee Layoff

 

The Labor Supply Effect of Unemployment Insurance after Mass Layoffs: Structural Estimation and Regression Discontinuity Evidence  

Stefan Bender, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)

Johannes Schmieder, Department of Economics, Columbia University

Till von Wachter, Department of Economics, Columbia University

 

Using linked employer-employee data to investigate the speed of adjustment in downsizing firms in Canada and the US  

Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University, US Census Bureau

Benoit Dostie, HEC Montréal Institut d’économie appliquée

 

Industry Exit Rates and Employee Separations Using the Canadian Longitudinal Worker File  

Yuri Ostrovsky, Statistics Canada

Kim P. Huynh, Indiana University

Marcel Voia, Carlton University

 

 

Regional Economics                                                                                                     

 

Reallocation, Selection and the Sources of Earnings Growth in Cities     

Matt Freedman, Cornell University

Jason Faberman, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

Clusters and Entrepreneurship  
Mercedes Delgado, Temple University
Michael E. Porter, Harvard Business School
Scott Stern, Northwestern University

 

Local Labor Market Impacts of Energy Sector Boom and Bust in Western Canada   

Joseph Thomas Marchand, University of Alberta

  

Productivity and Organizational Forms of Importing Firms in U.S. Manufacturing  
Victor Shlychkov, Columbia University