Description: Introduction John Haltiwanger, Marilyn E. Manser and Robert Topel I. The Need for Expanded Information 1. Existing Labor Market Data: Current and Potential Research Uses Marilyn E. Manser Comment: Charles Brown 2. Analytical Needs and Empirical Knowledge in Labor Economics Robert Topel Comment: Frank Stafford II. The Measurement of Employment and Unemployment: New Dimensions 3. Measuring Gross Worker and Job Flows Steven J. Davis and John Haltiwanger Comment: Bruce D. Meyer 4. Alternative Measures of Unemployment Based on Flow Data Stephen R. G. Jones and W. Craig Riddell Comment: Thomas Lemieux 5. Are Lifetime Jobs Disappearing? Henry S. Farber Comment: Derek Neal 6. The Impact of Ownership Change on Employment, Wages, and Labor Productivity in U.S. Manufacturing, 1977-1987 Robert H. McGuckin, Sang V. Nguyen, and Arnold P. Reznek Comment: Frank R. Lichtenberg 7. The CPS after the Redesign: Refocusing the Economic Lens Anne E. Polivka and Stephen M. Miller Comment: Gary Solon III. Employee Compensation: Measurement and Impact 8. Divergent Trends in Alternative Wage Series Katharine G. Abraham, James R. Spletzer, and Jay C. Stewart Comment: Lawrence F. Katz IV. Looking Inside the Firm 9. What Happens within Firms? A Survey of Empirical Evidence on Compensation Policies Canice Prendergast Comment: George A. Akerlof 10. Internal and External Labor Markets: An Analysis of Matched Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data John M. Abowd and Francis Kramarz 11. The Worker-Establishment Characteristics Database Kenneth R. Troske 12. A Needs Analysis of Training Data: What Do We Want, What Do We Have, Can We Ever Get It? Lisa M. Lynch Comment: John M. Barron 13. Employer-Provided Training, Wages, and Capital Investment Stephen G. Bronars and Melissa Famulari

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