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Davis, Steven; Haltiwanger, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

We combine information from several different studies and data sets to assemble a fuller, more accurate picture of job flows and worker flows in U.S. labor markets. Our picture characterizes the magnitudes of job and worker flows, the connections between them, their cyclical behavior,...

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Trade and Workforce Changeover in Brazil

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

pattern. Establishment-level regressions show that exporters exhibit significant employment downsizing. Workforce changeovers … displaced workers shift to nontraded-output industries or out of recorded employment. It remains an important task for research … to analyze the impact of economic reform on worker separations, accessions and spell durations outside employment at the …

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Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States: Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

Haltiwanger, John; Bjelland, Melissa; Fallick, Bruce; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

-to-employer flows is high, representing about 4 percent of employment and 30 percent of separations each quarter. The pace of employer …

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Job Security Does Affect Economic Efficiency: Theory, A New Statistic, and Evidence from Chile

Petrin, Amil; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

The extensive empirical macro- and micro-level evidence on the impact of job security provisions is largely inconclusive. We argue that the weak evidence is a consequence of the weak power of statistics used, which is suggested by a dynamic theory of plant-level labor demand that we develop....

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The Internet and Job Search

Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

their current employer and are more likely to make an employment-to-employment transition. Examining the unemployed, I find …

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The Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment

Solon, Gary; Elsby, Michael W.; Michaels, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

One of the strongest trends in recent macroeconomic modeling of labor market fluctuations is to treat unemployment inflows as acyclical. This trend stems in large part from an influential paper by Shimer on "Reassessing the Ins and Outs of Unemployment," i.e., the extent to which increased...

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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Kugler, Adriana; Pica, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

, especially in sectors with higher employment volatility. Moreover, we find that the reform reduced firms' employment adjustments …

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Labor-Market Matching with Precautionary Savings and Aggregate Fluctuations

Krusell, Per; Mukoyama, Toshihiko; Sahin, Aysegul - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

idiosyncratic employment shocks against which they cannot insure directly. The labor market has a Diamond … matching function. Wages are determined through Nash bargaining. We also consider aggregate productivity shocks, and a complete …

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Job Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster

Rebitzer, James B.; Fallick, Bruce; Fleischmann, Charles A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

In Silicon Valley's computer cluster, skilled employees are reported to move rapidly between competing firms. This job-hopping facilitates the reallocation of resources towards firms with superior innovations, but it also creates human capital externalities that reduce incentives to invest in...

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Searching for Better Prospects: Endogenizing Falling Job Tenure and Private Pension Coverage

Owyang, Michael T.; Friedberg, Leora; Sinclair, Tara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

relative wages of job-to-job movers over a similar period. We develop a search model in which firms may offer tenure …

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