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... Job Creation and Destruc- tion by Steve Davis, John Haltiwanger, and Scott Schuh is an example
of the kind of research and analysis that the US Bureau of the Census hoped to encourage when
it supported development of the Longitudinal Research Data- base (LRD) and the ...
SJ Davis… - 1991 - nber.org
This study measures the heterogeneity of establishment-level employment changes in the
US manufacturing sector over the 1972 to 1986 period. We measure this heterogeneity in
terms of the gross creation and destruction of jobs and the rate at which jobs are ...
... Growth Lessons from Microeconomic Evidence Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger, and CJ Krizan
8.1 Overview ... In addition, we con- 304 Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger, and CJ Krizan Page 4.
sider the related theoretical literature on creative destruction models of growth. ...
... REALLOCATION, FIRM TURNOVER, AND EFFICIENCY: SELECTION ON PRODUCTIVITY
OR PROFITABILITY? Lucia Foster John Haltiwanger Chad Syverson ... 2005 by Lucia Foster,
John Haltiwanger and Chad Syverson. All rights reserved. ...
SJ Davis… - 1990 - nber.org
Standard business cycle analysis focuses on the nature and propagation of aggregate
shocks. High-frequency fluctuations in economywide output, productivity, and
unemployment are typically modeled in an aggregate fashion that abstracts from sectoral ...
SJ Davis… - Handbook of labor economics, 1999 - Elsevier
Abstract Market economies experience high rates of job creation and job destruction in
almost every time period and sector. Each year, many businesses expand and many others
contract. New businesses constantly enter, while others abruptly exit or gradually ...
SJ Davis… - 1991 - nber.org
This paper exploits a rich and largely untapped source of information on the wages and
other characteristics of individual manufacturing plants to cast new light on recent changes
in the United States wage structure. Our primary data source, the Longitudinal Research ...
This paper explores cyclical fluctuations in investment due to discrete changes in the plant's
stock of capital. To do so, we focus on a machine replacement problem in which a producer
decides whether to replace its entire existing stock of capital with new machinery and ...
RW Cooper… - Review of Economic Studies, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
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RJ Caballero, EMRA Engel,
JC Haltiwanger… - Brookings Papers on …, 1995 - JSTOR
... conducted. Eduardo Engel acknowledges financial support from FONDECYT (Chile)
grant 195-520. John Haltiwanger acknowledges financial support from the Census
Fellow Program and the National Science Foundation. 1 ...
SJ Davis,
J Haltiwanger… - Small business economics, 1996 - Springer
This paper investigates how job creation and destruction behavior varies by employer size
in the US manufacturing sector during the period 1972 to 1988. The paper also evaluates
the empirical basis for conventional claims about the job-creating prowess of small ...
KG Abraham… - Journal of Economic Literature, 1995 - JSTOR
Page 1. Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XXXIII (September 1995), pp. 1215-1264
Real Wages and the Business Cycle By KATHARINE G. ABRAHAM US Bureau of Labor
Statistics and JOHN C. HALTIWANGER University of Maryland ...
E Bartelsman,
J Haltiwanger, S Scarpetta… - 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Bartelsman, Haltiwanger, and Scarpetta provide an analysis of the process of
creative destruction across 24 countries and 2-digit industries over the past decade. They
rely on a newly assembled dataset that draws from different micro data sources (business ...
SJ Davis… - 1999 - nber.org
We study the effects of oil price changes and other shocks on the creation and destruction of
US manufacturing jobs from 1972 to 1988. We find that oil shocks account for about 20-25
percent of the cyclical variability in employment growth under our identifying assumptions, ...
RJ Caballero, EMRA Engel… - 1995 - nber.org
This paper studies quarterly employment flows of approximately 10,000 large US
manufacturing establishments during 1972: 1-1980: 4. After estimating the extent of short run
microeconomic substitution between employment and hours per worker (hours-week), we ...
Recent work by Rotemberg and Saloner (1986) investigates the effect of the business cycle
on optimal collusive pricing by specifying that demand is subject to iid shocks. An implication
of the iid assumption is that firms' expectations on future demand are unrelated to the ...
MN Baily, EJ Bartelsman… - Small Business Economics, 1996 - Springer
The conventional wisdom is that the rising productivity in the US manufacturing sector in the
1980s has been driven by the apparently pervasive downsizing over this period. Aggregate
evidence clearly shows falling employment accompanying the rise in productivity. In this ...
By exploiting establishment-level data, this paper sheds new light on the source of the
changes in the structure of production, wages, and employment that have occurred over the
last several decades. Based on theoretical work by Caselli (1999) and Kremer and Maskin ...
J Haltiwanger, M Waldman - The American Economic Review, 1985 - JSTOR
A recurring controversy in economic thought concerns the conflict between the assumption
of rationality and the fact that economic agents have limited capacities to process
information.'For example, this conflict was a factor in the marginalist debate of the 1940's, ...
CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles, Pradeep Teregowda): Apervasive finding
in recent research using longitudinal establishmentlevel data is that idiosyncratic factors dominate
the distribution of output, employment, investment, and productivity growth rates ...
Page 1. Productivity Differences Across Employers: The Roles of Employer Size, Age,
and Human Capital By JOHN C. HALTIWANGER, JULIA I. LANE, AND JAMES R.
SPLETZER* Recent research using longitudinal micro- economic ...
Understanding the nature and magnitude of resource reallocation, particularly as it relates to
productivity growth, is important both because it affects how we model and interpret
aggregate productivity dynamics, and also because market structure and institutions may ...
[CITATION] Job creation and job destruction
SJ Davis, RJ Faberman… - 2006 - nber.org
New data sources and products developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau
of the Census highlight the fluid character of US labor markets. Private-sector job creation
and destruction rates average nearly 8% of employment per quarter. Worker flows in the ...
We study the variability of business growth rates in the US economy from 1976 onwards. To
carry out our study, we exploit the recently developed Longitudinal Business Database
(LBD)(Jarmin and Miranda 2002a), which contains annual observations on employment ...
RE Hall, H Farber… - Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1995 - JSTOR
THE LOSS of a job can be a significant economic event. When an employer discharges a
worker permanently, the worker may take many months to find a new job. The new job often
pays lower wages, and the worker faces a much higher likelihood of discharge from a new ...
L Foster,
J Haltiwanger… - The Review of Economics and …, 2006 - MIT Press
Abstract The US retail trade sector underwent a massive restructuring and reallocation of
activity in the 1990s with accompanying technological advances. Using a data set of
establishments in that sector, we quantify and explore the relationship between this ...
M Eslava,
J Haltiwanger, A Kugler… - Journal of Development …, 2004 - Elsevier
Estimates for the US suggest that at least in some sectors productivity enhancing
reallocation is the dominant factor in accounting for productivity growth. An open question,
particularly relevant for developing countries, is whether reallocation is always productivity ...
R Cooper… - 1993 - nber.org
This paper studies an economy in which producers must incur resource costs to replace
depreciated machines. The process of costly replacement and depreciation creates
endogenous fluctuations in productivity, employment and output of a single producer. We ...
In recent years a growing number of countries have constructed data series on job creation
and job destruction using establishment-level data sets. This paper provides a description
and detailed comparison of these new data series for the United States and Canada. First, ...
MN Baily, EJ Bartelsman… - Review of Economics and …, 2001 - MIT Press
A longstanding issue in empirical economics is the behavior of average labor productivity
over the business cycle. This paper provides new insights into the cyclicality of aggregate
labor productivity by examining the cyclical behavior of productivity at the plant level as ...
Recent research using establishment and firm level data has raised a variety of conceptual
and measurement questions regarding our understanding of aggregate growth. 1 Several
key, related findings are of interest. First, in a well-functioning market economy, there is ...
SJ Davis… - American Economic Review, 1999 - JSTOR
Theory restricts short-run job creation and destruction responses and cumulative
employment and job reallocation responses to allocative and aggregate shocks. We
formulate these restrictions and implement them for postwar data on US manufacturing. ...
SJ Davis… - 1998 - nber.org
Market economies exhibit high rates of worker flows from one job to another and between
employment and joblessness. The myriad forces that drive these flows fall into two broad
categories: one associated with events or circumstances that induce workers to reallocate ...
This paper analyzes job flows in a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the
past decade, exploiting a harmonized firm-level dataset. It shows that industry and firm size
effects (and especially firm size) account for a large fraction in the overall variability in job ...
... UNEMPLOYMENT-RATE DYNAMICS AND PERSISTENT UNEMPLOYMENT UNDER RATIONAL
EXPECTATIONS Michael R. Darby University of California, Los Angeles National Bureau of
Economic Research John Haltiwanger University of California, Los Angeles Mark Plant ...
J Haltiwanger, M Waldman - The Quarterly Journal of …, 1989 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper considers the implications of heterogeneity in information-processing
abilities for macroeconomic models that exhibit “strategic complements.” The latter is the
same concept that has received much attention in the recent macro literature under the ...
JM Abowd,
J Haltiwanger… - The American Economic Review, 2004 - JSTOR
The development of a database infrastructure that captures the complex interactions among
households and businesses at the microeconomic level and characterizes the dynamics of
the moder economy is critical for the social sciences. The creation of such an infrastructure ...
R Cooper… - 1993 - nber.org
This paper provides empirical evidence on macroeconomic complementarities, a restriction
on the nature of interaction between individuals in a multi-agent setting. These models imply
that activities across agents will be positively correlated, that discrete decisions will be ...
E Bartelsman,
J Haltiwanger… - University of Maryland mimeo, 2008 - nber.org
Abstract A growing body of empirical evidence suggests that, even in narrowly defined
industries, there is significant heterogeneity in firm productivity and firm size. Moreover,
consistent with core theoretical models of the size distribution of firms, the productivity and ...
SJ Davis… - 1995 - nber.org
We study how the hourly wage structure varies with establishment size and how wage
dispersion breaks down into between-plant and within-plant components Our study
combines household and establishment data for the US manufacturing sector in 1982. 1) ...
J Haltiwanger, M Singh - The World Bank Economic Review, 1999 - World Bank
Abstract This article reports the results from a survey of public sector employment retrench-
ment episodes across a wide variety of developing and transition economies. The
information collected and analyzed is primarily from internal World Bank documents and ...
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PRIVATE EQUITY AND EMPLOYMENT
Steven J. Davis John C. Haltiwanger Ron S. Jarmin Josh Lerner Javier Miranda Working
Paper 17399 http://www.nber.org/papers/w17399 NATIONAL ...
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHO CREATES JOBS? SMALL VS.
LARGE VS. YOUNG John C. Haltiwanger Ron S. Jarmin Javier Miranda Working
Paper 16300 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16300 NATIONAL ...
... N HALT IW ANGER JULIA LANE Page 2. Economic Turbulence Page 3. Page 4. Economic
Turbulence Is a Volatile Economy Good for America? clair brown, john haltiwanger, and julia
lane the university of chicago press chicago and london Page 5. ...
... Volume Title: Measuring Capital in the New Economy Volume Author/Editor: Carol Corrado, John
Haltiwanger and Dan Sichel, editors ... Author: John M. Abowd, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, Julia
Lane, Paul Lengermann, Kristin McCue, Kevin McKinney, Kristin Sandusky ...
R Cooper… - 1990 - nber.org
... INVENTORIES AND THE PROPAGATION OF SECTORAL SHOCKS Russell Cooper John
Haltiwanger Working Paper No. 2425 ... inventory holdings and demand linkages. Russell Cooper
John Haltiwanger Hoover Institution, HHNB Department of Economics Stanford University ...
SJ Davis, RJ Faberman… - 2010 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE ESTABLISHMENT-LEVEL BEHAVIOR
OF VACANCIES AND HIRING Steven J. Davis R. Jason Faberman John C. Haltiwanger
Working Paper 16265 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16265 ...
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DYNAMICS OF LABOR DEMAND:
EVIDENCE FROM PLANT-LEVEL OBSERVATIONS AND AGGREGATE
IMPLICATIONS Russell W. Cooper John C. Haltiwanger Jonathan Willis ...
Page 1. Gross Worker and Job Flows in a Transition Economy: An Analysis of Estonia
by John C. Haltiwanger and Milan Vodopivec* February 1999 * University of Maryland,
USA; GEA College of Entrepreneurship, Slovenia and World Bank. ...
J Haltiwanger… - Economics of Transition, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Like many transition economies, Slovenia is undergoing profound changes in the workings
of the labour market with potentially greater flexibility in terms of both wage and employment
adjustment. To investigate the impact of these changes, we use unique longitudinal ...
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE INS AND OUTS OF UNEMPLOYMENT:
THE INS WIN Michael R. Darby John C. Haltiwanger Mark W. Plant Working Paper
No. 1997 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH ...
E Bartelsman, A Bassanini… - The ICT revolution: …, 2004 - books.google.com
3.1. INTRODUCTION In the firm-level analysis presented in Chapter 2, we were somewhat
limited in the number of issues that we could address with internationally comparable data.
There is a trade-off between the number of countries that can be covered in the analysis ...
Gross Job Flows between Plants and Industries Journal article by John C.
Haltiwanger, Scott Schuh; New England Economic Review, 1999. Read Gross
Job Flows between Plants and Industries at Questia library.
In this paper we consider the implications of a particular type of heterogeneity-one which
characterises a large number of economic environments, but which has not received any
systematic treatment in the literature. In its most basic form, the heterogeneity we have in ...
Page 1. laticma Bureau of Economic Research Measuring Capital in the New Economy Studies
in Income a od Wc: il Mi Volume 65 Edited by Carol Corrado, John Haltiwanger, and Daniel
Sichel Page 2. Measuring Capital in the New Economy Page 3. ...
E Bartelsman,
J Haltiwanger… - NBER Conference on …, 2005 - 193.205.83.2
Cross-country comparisons and analysis of firm dynamics are inherently interesting, but also
inherently difficult. Such comparisons are important because they provide insights into the
efficiency with which resources are allocated in the economy and its effects on output, ...
RW Cooper,
JC Haltiwanger - Journal of Monetary Economics, 1992 - Elsevier
Cross-country comparisons and analysis of firm dynamics are inherently interesting, but also
inherently difficult. Such comparisons are important because they provide insights into the
efficiency with which resources are allocated in the economy and its effects on output, ...
J Haltiwanger, H Lehmann… - Economics of transition, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The transition from a centrally-planned to a market economy entails large scale reallocation
of labour. Under communism, planners emphasized rapid industrialization that lead
eventually to an economy with an inflated industrial sector. At the same time services, ...
We develop a preliminary version of an Integrated Longitudinal Business Database (ILBD)
that combines administrative records and survey data for all employer and nonemployer
business units in the United States. Unlike other large-scale business databases, the ILBD ...
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CROSS-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES IN
PRODUCTIVITY: THE ROLE OF ALLOCATION AND SELECTION Eric J. Bartelsman John C.
Haltiwanger Stefano Scarpetta Working Paper 15490 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15490 ...
It seems natural that statistical agencies would strive for internal consistency between macro-
and microeconomic measures of key economic variables quantifying the activities of
businesses. That is, ideally a given measure should be collected at the micro level (ie, the ...
... REACHING FOR THE STARS: WHO PAYS FOR TALENT IN INNOVATIVE INDUSTRIES? Frederik
Andersson Matthew Freedman John Haltiwanger Julia Lane Kathryn Shaw ... 2006 by Frederik
Andersson, Matthew Freedman, John Haltiwanger, Julia Lane and Kathryn Shaw. ...
[CITATION] Small business and job creation in the United States: The role of new and young businesses
J Haltiwanger… - Are small firms important, 1999
... [Downloadable!] (restricted). Timothy Dunne & John Haltiwanger & Lucia Foster, 2000.
"Wage and Productivity ... Census Bureau. [Downloadable!]; John M. Abowd & John
Haltiwanger & Julia I. Lane & Kristin Sandusky, 2001. "Within ...
[CITATION] Driving forces and employment fluctuations
J Haltiwanger, A Kugler, M Kugler… - The Journal of Policy …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Openness to international competition can lead to enhanced resource allocation in the end.
While factor reallocation is essential if net benefits are to be derived from trade liberalization,
the process generates costs both for transitioning workers and for employers undergoing ...
R Cooper… - University of Texas at Austin working paper, 2002 - Citeseer
Abstract This paper studies the nature of capital adjustment at the plant-level. We use an
indirect inference procedure to estimate the structural parameters of a rich specification of
capital adjustment costs. In effect, the parameters are optimally chosen to reproduce∗ The ...
We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using
longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the US Census Bureau's
Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two ...
SJ Davis, RJ Faberman,
J Haltiwanger, R Jarmin… - 2008 - nber.org
Unemployment inflows fell from 4 percent of employment per month in the early 1980s to 2
percent or less by the mid 1990s and thereafter. US data also show a secular decline in the
job destruction rate and the volatility of firm-level employment growth rates. We interpret ...
1. Introduction—… the widespread introduction of new technology has brought new
employment opportunities and rising relative wages to those with the highest levels of
human capital. However, this new technology has also helped to bring about higher than ...
We analyze employment and capital adjustments using plant data from the Colombian
Annual Manufacturing Survey. We estimate adjustment functions for capital and labor as a
non-linear function of the gaps between desired and actual factor levels, allowing for ...
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TRADE REFORMS AND MARKET
SELECTION: EVIDENCE FROM MANUFACTURING PLANTS IN COLOMBIA Marcela
Eslava John C. Haltiwanger Adriana D. Kugler Maurice Kugler ...
R Cooper… - 1994 - nber.org
This paper investigates the motivations for, and implications of, the Automobile Industry code
under the National Industrial Recovery Act. The amended code contained a provision calling
for automobile producers to alter the timing of new model introductions and the annual ...
Abstract: This analysis attempts to place existing research about job growth among young,
small firms in the context of productivity dynamics. Most research to date has relied on US
manufacturing data; this study, however, takes advantage of tabulations from recent, ...
Page 1. The Economic Journal, 98 (September I988), 731-745 Printed in Great Britain
A MODEL OF INVENTORY AND LAYOFF BEHAVIOUR UNDER UNCERTAINTY*
John C. Haltiwanger and Louis J. Maccini Fluctuations ...
[CITATION] How institutions affect labor market outcomes: evidence from transition countries
JC Haltiwanger, S Scarpetta… - World Bank, processed, 2003
R Cooper,
J Haltiwanger… - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
We estimate a search model to match hours, employment, vacancies and unemployment at
the micro-and macrolevels. We establish a set of facts concerning the variability of
unemployment and vacancies in the aggregate and the distribution of net employment ...
This paper develops a theory of layoffs in an intertemporal setting in which job separations
may occur in each of several successive periods. Theoretical analysis of temporary layoffs in
previous studies has been limited to models in which the layoffs occur only in the final ...
Information on firm dynamics is critical to understanding economic activity, yet is
fundamentally difficult to measure. In this article we introduce a new way of capturing
dynamics: following clusters of workers as they move across administrative entities. We ...
J Haltiwanger, M Waldman - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper considers environments in which the population consists of a mix of
altruists and egoists, and asks under what situations do altruists have a disproportionately
large effect on equilibrium, and under what situations is it the egoists. We begin by ...
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ADJUSTED ESTIMATES OF WORKER FLOWS
AND JOB OPENINGS IN JOLTS Steven J. Davis R. Jason Faberman John C. Haltiwanger
Ian Rucker Working Paper 14137 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14137 ...
J Haltiwanger - New Zealand Economic Papers, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
1. Overview Recent research using firm and firm-level data has raised a variety of
conceptual and measurement questions regarding our understanding of aggregate growth.
1 Several key, related findings are of interest. First, in a well-functioning market economy, ...
[CITATION] Private equity, jobs and productivity
S Davis, J Haltiwanger, R Jarmin, J Lerner… - The Global Economic Impact …, 2009
[CITATION] Published versus Sample Statistics from the ASM: Implications for the LRD
SJ Davis,
JC Haltiwanger… - 1991 - … of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE SLOW GROWTH OF NEW PLANTS:
LEARNING ABOUT DEMAND? Lucia Foster John C. Haltiwanger Chad Syverson
Working Paper 17853 http://www.nber.org/papers/w17853 ...
JH Davis, J Miron, K Murphy… - Brookings Papers on …, 1990 - 222.23.210.216
THE US LABOR MARKET iS characterized by high rates ofjob creation and job destruction,
and by large flows of workers into and out of employment. In a previous paper, we
developed a conceptual framework to interpret the dynamic behavior of both the levels, or ...
J Haltiwanger, R Jarmin… - Journal of urban economics, 2010 - Elsevier
In part due to the popular perception that Big-Boxes displace smaller, often family owned
(aka Mom-and-Pop) retail establishments, several empirical studies have examined the
evidence on how Big-Boxes' impact local retail employment but no clear consensus has ...
[CITATION] Gross job flows, volume 3B of Handbook of Labor Economics
S Davis… - 1999 - North Holland
KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication The creation and analysis of
employer-employee matched data (1999). Pagina-navigatie: Main. ...
SJ Davis, RJ Faberman… - 2005 - nber.org
Page 1. The Flow Approach to Labor Markets: New Data Sources, Micro-Macro Links
and the Recent Downturn By Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman, and John
Haltiwanger* June 4, 2005 Abstract New data sources and products ...
[CITATION] VJob creation and destructionV
S Davis, J Haltiwanger… - … Institute of Technology Press, Cambridge MA, 1996
JC Haltiwanger… - Carnegie-Rochester Conference …, 1989 - ideas.repec.org
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J Haltiwanger, M Waldman - Economic Inquiry, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the relationship between the way rational expectations is employed
in practice and the argument initially put forth to justify its use. In practice rational
expectations has meant that the expectations of each agent taken separately is consistent ...
Abstract: This paper uses a novel approach to measure firm entry and exit, mergers and
acquisition. It uses information about the flows of clusters of workers across business units to
identify longitudinal linkage relationships in longitudinal business data. These longitudinal ...
[CITATION] Job Creation and Destruction
D Steven, J Haltiwanger… - 1996 - The MIT Press
T Hatta… - International Economic Review, 1986 - JSTOR
When two strong substitutes have different ad valorem tax rates, a consumer can avoid a
substantial amount of tax payment by substituting the good with the lower rate for the other.
This will distort resource allocation. Thus, reducing the differential between the rates of ...
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