Dunne, Timothy; Roberts, Mark J; Samuelson, Larry - In: Journal of Labor Economics 7 (1989) 1, pp. 48-71
This article quantifies the role of plant construction, expansion, contraction, and closing in generating net and gross changes in U.S. manufacturing employment over the 1963-82 period. A new longitudinal data set, constructed from the plant-level observations collected in the last five Census...