This paper looks at annual changes in Canadian business sector employment from 2001 to 2009. This period encompasses an … expansionary phase (2001 to 2008), followed by a recession (2008/2009). Firm-level data are used to decompose yearly net employment … change into gross employment creation and destruction, which makes it possible to measure the size of total annual employment …

employment creation and gross employment destruction at the firm level. It is based on research carried out by Statistics Canada …This article in the Economic Insights series decomposes business-sector annual net employment growth into gross … on the topic of business dynamics.The net employment created or destroyed in the business sector in a given year provides …

The important debate about how economic fluctuations affect employment reallocation in heterogeneous businesses is … for devising labor policies that aim at dampening employment fluctuations. The theoretical literature suggests that job … on the cyclicality of employment in heterogeneous firms in a developing country. Results produced by classifying firms by …

We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … employment, and the effects are primarily felt by the relatively smaller businesses; the impact on large businesses are generally … non-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we …

We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … employment, and the effects are primarily felt by the relatively smaller businesses; the impact on large businesses are generally … non-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we …