Do the job-to-job moves of workers contribute to the cyclicality of employment growth at different types of firms? In … reallocation to higher wage firms falling to zero. We also find that differential responses of net hires from non-employment play … an important role in the patterns of the cyclicality of employment dynamics across firms classified by size and wage. For …

Employment rates of Hispanic males in the United States are considerably lower than employment rates of whites. In the … data used in this paper, the Hispanic male employment rate is 61 percent, compared with 83 percent for white men.1 The … question of the employment disadvantage of Hispanic men likely has many parallels to the question of the employment …

business ownership and back. We find that the barrier between wage and salary work and self-employment is extremely fluid, with …

likelihood of subsequent employment. This finding is inconsistent with the heterogeneity (“bad apple”) explanation for why the … likelihood of subsequent employment rather than to their having lower earnings once a job is found …

-reported administrative data, we document substantial discrepancies in basic measures of employment status that persist even after controlling …

We test the effects of labor market networks defined by residential neighborhoods on re-employment following mass … employers by other network members. These network measures are linked to more rapid re-employment following mass layoffs, and to … re-employment at neighbors’ employers. We also find evidence that network connections – especially those that provide …

-to-employer flows is high, representing about 4 percent of employment and 30 percent of separations each quarter. The pace of employer …

employment growth rate distribution grew about 31 percent faster than the median firm. Moreover, the 90-50 differential was 16 … percent larger than the 50-10 differential reflecting the positive skewness of the employment growth rate distribution. We … show that the shape of the firm employment growth distribution changes substantially in the post-2000 period. By 2007, the …