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Exploring differences in employment between household and establishment data

Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Sandusky, … - In: Journal of labor economics 31 (2013) 2, pp. 129-172

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Entrepreneurship During the COVID-19 Pandemic : Evidence from the Business Formation Statistics

Haltiwanger, John C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Applications for new businesses from the U.S. Census Bureau's monthly and weekly Business Formation Statistics (BFS) fell substantially in the early stages of the pandemic but then surged in the second half of 2020. This surge has continued through May 2021. The pace of applications since...

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Industries, Mega Firms, and Increasing Inequality

Haltiwanger, John C.; Hyatt, Henry R.; Spletzer, James - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Most of the rise in overall earnings inequality is accounted for by rising between-industry dispersion from about ten … to between-industry earnings inequality. The rise of employment in mega firms is concentrated in the thirty industries … that dominate rising earnings inequality. Among these industries, earnings differentials for the mega firms relative to …

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Founding Teams and Startup Performance

Choi, Joonkyu; Goldschlag, Nathan; Haltiwanger, John C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We explore the role of founding teams in accounting for the post-entry dynamics of startups. While the entrepreneurship literature has largely focused on business founders, we broaden this view by considering founding teams as both the founders and early joiners. We investigate the idea that the...

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Reallocation in the Great Recession : cleansing or not?

Foster, Lucia; Grim, Cheryl; Haltiwanger, John C. - In: Journal of labor economics 34 (2016) 1, pp. 293-331

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Who moves up the job ladder?

Haltiwanger, John C.; Hyatt, Henry R.; McEntarfer, Erika - In: Journal of labor economics 36 (2018), pp. 301-336

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Cyclical Worker Flows : Cleansing vs. Sullying

Haltiwanger, John C.; Hyatt, Henry R.; McEntarfer, Erika; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Do recessions speed up or impede productivity-enhancing reallocation? To investigate this question, we use U.S. linked employer-employee data to examine how worker flows contribute to productivity growth over the business cycle. We find that in expansions high-productivity firms grow faster...

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Rising Markups or Changing Technology?

Foster, Lucia; Haltiwanger, John C.; Tuttle, Cody - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Recent evidence suggests the U.S. business environment is changing, with rising market concentration and markups. The most prominent and extensive evidence backs out firm-level markups from the first-order conditions for variable factors. The markup is identified as the ratio of the variable...

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Opening the Black Box : Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion

Blackwood, G. Jacob; Cunningham, Cindy; Dey, Matthew S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity measurement. Moreover, the theoretical...

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Automation and the Workforce : A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey

Acemoglu, Daron; Anderson, Gary; Beede, David Nathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper describes the adoption of automation technologies by US firms across all economic sectors by leveraging a new module introduced in the 2019 Annual Business Survey, conducted by the US Census Bureau in partnership with the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES)....

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