We examine the timing of firms operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms demand for labor and estimate production-functions and relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the...

We present an organized set of stylized facts on the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the numer of jobs at the firm level. Job turnover is usually measured by comparing stocks of employment in each firm at two points in time and adding up the absolute...