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The Spatial Mismatch between Innovation and Joblessness

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2019

's most persistent pockets of joblessness. Could a more even spatial distribution of innovation reduce American joblessness …? Could Federal policies disperse innovation without significant costs? If research funding is already maximizing knowledge … production, then spatial reallocation of that funding will reduce America's overall innovation unless that reallocation comes …

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Labor Market Fluidity and Economic Performance

Davis, Steven; Haltiwanger, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

U.S. labor markets became much less fluid in recent decades. Job reallocation rates fell more than a quarter after 1990, and worker reallocation rates fell more than a quarter after 2000. The declines cut across states, industries and demographic groups defined by age, gender and education....

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How Firms Respond to Business Cycles: The Role of Firm Age and Firm Size

Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron S.; Miranda, Javier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

There remains considerable debate in both the theoretical and empirical literature about the differences in the cyclical dynamics of firms by firm size. Some have hypothesized that small firms are more sensitive to cycles while others have posited that larger firms are more sensitive....

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Private Equity and Employment

Davis, Steven; Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Private equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition,...

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Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young

Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron S.; Miranda, Javier - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

The view that small businesses create the most jobs remains appealing to policymakers and small business advocates. Using data from the Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics and Longitudinal Business Database, we explore the many issues at the core of this ongoing debate. We find that the...

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Trade Reforms and Market Selection: Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia

Eslava, Marcela; Haltiwanger, John; Kugler, Maurice; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark-ups and input costs. We find that each of these market fundamentals are important in explaining plant exit. We then use variation across sectors in tariff changes after the...

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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...

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Cyclical Job Ladders by Firm Size and Firm Wage

Haltiwanger, John - 2017

We study whether workers progress up firm wage and size job ladders, and the cyclicality of this movement. Search theory predicts that workers should flow towards larger, higher paying firms. However, we see little evidence of a firm size ladder, partly because small, young firms poach workers...

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Measuring Gentrification : Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2018

We demonstrate that data from digital platforms such as Yelp have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification, both by providing data in close to real time (i.e. nowcasting and forecasting) and by providing additional context about how the local economy is changing. Combining...

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Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness : The Role of Spatial Mismatch

Andersson, Fredrik - 2014

This paper presents a new approach to the measurement of the effects of spatial mismatch that takes advantage of matched employer-employee administrative data integrated with a person-specific job accessibility measure, as well as demographic and neighborhood characteristics. The basic...

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