This paper develops a framework for analyzing unemployment in terms of …distribution of the inflow Into unemployment are the primary determinant of …drive the recession. In contrast to normal unemployment, cyclical unemployment …

-reported administrative data, we document substantial discrepancies in basic measures of employment status that persist even after controlling … most prevalent for marginal workers and marginal jobs, and find systematic associations between the incidence of reporting …

The view that small businesses create the most jobs remains appealing to policymakers and small business advocates … issues at the core of this ongoing debate. We find that the relationship between firm size and employment growth is sensitive …

, age, and prior growth. Relative to controls, employment at target establishments declines 3 percent over two years post … involving firms in the service and retail sectors. But target firms also create more new jobs at new establishments, and they … at target firms are less than 1 percent of initial employment. In contrast, the sum of gross job creation and destruction …

is accounted for by the reduction in the response of employment to shocks in US establishments. Using a plant level … employment adjustment. Changes in market power, as captured by changes in the curvature of the revenue, function play a minimal …

Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). Our method involves reweighting the cross-sectional density of employment growth rates in … JOLTS to match the corresponding density in the comprehensive Business Employment Dynamics (BED) data. To motivate our work …, we compare JOLTS to other data sources and document large discrepancies with respect to aggregate employment growth, the …

skilled labor but brought limited or ambiguous effects to their employment levels …