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Acknowledgments We are grateful to the Ford and MacArthur Foundations for their generous support of this project, and particularly to Rick McGahey and Erika Poethig for help along the way. Tim Bartik and Howard Wial have given us helpful comments, as have seminar participants at Georgetown University . Suzanne Nichols and Eric Wanner of the Russell Sage Foundation were extremely accommodating in getting the manuscript out in a timely and efficient manner and were generally very supportive of us. And four anonymous referees (two providing reports to the Russell Sage Foundation and two to the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Census Bureau ) helped enormously as well. This research uses data from the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer -Household Dynamics (LEHD) program, which was partially supported by the following grants: National Science Foundation (NSF) SES9978093 , SES-0339191, and ITR-0427889; National Institute on Aging AG018854; and grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The LEHD program data infrastructure was developed by many individuals, includingJohnAbowd ,FredrikAndersson,MatthewArmstrong,SasanBakhtiari, Patti Becker, Gary Benedetto, Melissa Bjelland, Chet Bowie, Holly Brown, Hyowook Chiang, Stephen Ciccarella, Cynthia Clark, Rob Creecy, Lisa Dragoset, Chuncui Fan, Colleen Flannery, Lucia Foster, Matthew Freedman , Monica Garcia-Perez, Nancy Gordon, Matthew Graham, Owen Haaga, Hermann Habermann, John Haltiwanger, Heath Hayward, Tomeka Hill, Henry Hyatt, Emily Isenberg, Ron Jarmin, C. Louis Kincannon , Fredrick Knickerbocker, Mark Kutzbach, Walter Kydd, Julia Lane, Paul Lengermann, Tao Li, Cindy Ma, Erika McEntarfer, Kevin McKinney, Thomas Mesenbourg, Bong Mulato, Nicole Nestoriak, Camille Norwood, Ron Prevost, Kenneth Prewitt, George Putnam, Uma Radhakrishnan, Bryan Ricchetti, Marc Roemer, Kristin Sandusky, Ian Schmutte, Liliana Sousa, Bryce Stephens, Martha Stinson, Michael Strain, Stephen Tibbets, J. Preston Waite, Chip Walker, Dan Weinberg, Bill Winkler, Simon Woodix x Acknowledgments cock, Jeremy Wu, Laura Zayatz, Chen Zhao, and Chaoling Zheng. The opinions expressed in this volume are those of the authors and not the U.S. Census Bureau or any of the research sponsors. We want to acknowledge Beth Shulman, a friend with whom we had a long series of conversations over the past few years on the issue of good jobs and how to fill and create them. Beth, who died quite unexpectedly while this manuscript was under preparation, was a source of great knowledge and inspiration on this issue. We remember her very fondly and miss her very much. ...

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