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Business Volatility, Job Destruction, and Unemployment

Davis, Steven J. - 2008

Unemployment inflows fell from 4 percent of employment per month in the early 1980s to 2 percent or less by the mid … parameter in search and matching models of unemployment. According to these models, a lower intensity of idiosyncratic shocks … produces less job destruction, fewer workers flowing through the unemployment pool and less frictional unemployment. To …

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Implications of Search Frictions : Matching Aggregate and Establishment-level Observations

Cooper, Russell - 2007

This paper studies hours, employment, vacancies and unemployment at micro and macro levels. It is built around a set of … facts concerning the variability of unemployment and vacancies in the aggregate and, at the establishment level, the …

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Currency Crisis and Unemployment : Sterling in 1931

Eichengreen, Barry - 1998

This paper studies the role of unemployment in sterling's interwar experience. According to most narrative accounts …, the proximate cause of the 1931 sterling crisis was a high and rising unemployment rate that placed pressure on British … currency crises, highlights the conflict between the objective of low unemployment and defense of the currency and show that it …

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

Bjelland, Melissa - 2008

We use administrative data linking workers and firms to study employer-to-employer flows. After discussing how to identify such flows in quarterly data, we investigate their basic empirical patterns. We find that the pace of employer-to-employer flows is high, representing about 4 percent of...

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On the Driving Forces Behind Cyclical Movement, in Employment and Job Reallocation

Davis, Steven J. - 1996

We rely on a decomposition of employment changes into job creation and job destruction components - and a novel set of identifying restrictions that this decomposition permits - to develop new evidence about the driving forces behind aggregate fluctuations and the channels through which they...

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Technology and Jobs : Secular Changes and Cyclical Dynamics

Dunne, Timothy - 1996

In this paper, we exploit plant-level data for U.S. manufacturing for the 1970s and 1980s to explore the connections between changes in technology and the structure of employment and wages. We focus on the nonproduction labor share (measured alternatively by employment and wages) as the variable...

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Measuring Gross Worker and Job Flows

Davis, Steven J. - 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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A Comparison of Job Creation and Job Destruction in Canada and the United States

Baldwin, John - 1994

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, the Canadian and United...

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Small Business and Job Creation : Dissecting the Myth and Reassessing theFacts

Davis, Steven J. - 1993

This paper investigates how job creation and destruction behavior varies by employer size in the U.S. 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 businesses. The chief findings...

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Gross Job Creation, Gross Job Destruction and Employment Reallocation

Davis, Steve J. - 1991

This study measures the heterogeneity of establishment-level employment changes in the U.S. 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 reallocated across plants. Our...

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