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The Labor Dynamics Institute's mission is to create and make accessible novel data on the dynamics of the labor markets. We work with research networks and statistical agencies, developing appropriate statistics to inform policy makers, researchers, and simply people seeking knowledge. For more information, visit our website.
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Why the Economics Profession Must Actively Participate in the Privacy Protection Debate
(2019-05-01)When Google or the U.S. Census Bureau publish detailed statistics on browsing habits or neighborhood characteristics, some privacy is lost for everybody while supplying public information. To date, economists have not ... -
metajelo: A Metadata Package for Journals to Support External Linked Objects
(2019-04-11)We propose a metadata package that is intended to provide academic journals with a lightweight means of registering, at the time of publication, the existence and disposition of supplementary materials. Information about ... -
The U.S. Census Bureau Adopts Differential Privacy
(2018-08-01)The U.S. Census Bureau announced, via its Scientific Advisory Committee, that it would protect the publications of the 2018 End-to-End Census Test (E2E) using differential privacy. The E2E test is a dress rehearsal for the ... -
Understanding Database Reconstruction Attacks on Public Data
(2018-01-01)In 2020 the U.S. Census Bureau will conduct the Constitutionally mandated decennial Census of Population and Housing. Because a census involves collecting large amounts of private data under the promise of confidentiality, ... -
Disclosure Limitation and Confidentiality Protection in Linked Data
(2018-01-01)Confidentiality protection for linked administrative data is a combination of access modalities and statistical disclosure limitation. We review traditional statistical disclosure limitation methods and newer methods based ... -
Total Error and Variability Measures with Integrated Disclosure Limitation for Quarterly Workforce Indicators and LEHD Origin Destination Employment Statistics in OnThe Map
(2017-12-16)We report results from the first comprehensive total quality evaluation of five major indicators in the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Program Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI): ... -
Proceedings from the 2017 Cornell-Census- NSF-Sloan Workshop on Practical Privacy
(2017-09-20)These proceedings report on a workshop hosted at the U.S. Census Bureau on May 8, 2017. Our purpose was to gather experts from various backgrounds together to continue discussing the development of formal privacy systems ... -
Proceedings from the 2016 NSF–Sloan Workshop on Practical Privacy
(2017-01-24)On October 14, 2016, we hosted a workshop that brought together economists, survey statisticians, and computer scientists with expertise in the field of privacy preserving methods: Census Bureau staff working on implementing ... -
Understanding the Effect of Procedural Justice on Psychological Distress
(2017-01-01)Studies on the effect of procedural justice on psychological distress present conflicting results. Drawing on instrumental and relational perspectives of justice, we test the hypothesis that the perception of procedural ... -
Modeling Endogenous Mobility in Earnings Determination
(2017-01-01)We evaluate the bias from endogenous job mobility in fixed-effects estimates of worker- and firm-specific earnings heterogeneity using longitudinally linked employer-employee data from the LEHD infrastructure file system ...
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