Job creation and destruction

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Job creation and destruction

by Steven J. Davis, John C. Haltiwanger, Scott Schuh

MIT Press, 1996

  • : hard
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p.[239]-253) and index

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Volume

: hard ISBN 9780262041522

Description

This volume considers the American manufacturing industry, and develops a statistical portait of the microeconomic adjustments that affect business and workers. The authors focus on the employer rather than worker side of the process aiming to show the processes that will be relevant to economists.

Table of Contents

  • Concepts, measurements, and data: job creation and destruction
  • job reallocation and worker reallocation
  • the LRD: data and measurement. Basic facts about job creation and destruction: magnitude
  • persistence
  • concentration
  • cyclicality
  • the connection between job reallocation and worker reallocation. Similarities and differences by industry and other sectors: variation across industries: implications for worker flows, excess job reallocation and plant-level heterogeneity, which industries create the most jobs? variation across regions
  • variation by wage level: wages and net job growth, wages and gross job flows
  • variation by exposure to international trade
  • variation by productivity growth, factor intensity, and degree of specialization
  • quantifying the role of between-sector employment shifts
  • sector variation in the persistence of job creation and destruction. Differences by size and age of plants and firms: context and motivation
  • measuring employer size and employer age
  • job creation and destruction rates by employer size
  • the size distribution fallacy
  • netting out reality
  • the regression fallacy
  • an unsuitable database
  • what fraction of new manufacturing jobs did small employers create? job creation and destruction rates by plant age
  • the durability of jobs by employer size and age. Job flows and business cycles: context and motivation
  • the prevailing view of business cycles: the macroeconomic framework, some empirical underpinnings of the prevailing view, implications for layoffs, predictions for job creation and destruction dynamics
  • time-series evidence on creation and destruction: total manufacturing, variation among sectors and plant types, a summary of the LRD evidence, evidence based on other data sources
  • some theoretical elements of a richer view of recessions: the role of heterogeneity and reallocation frictions, allocative shocks as driving forces behind aggregate fluctuations, aggregate shocks and reallocation timing effects, information spillovers, allocative shocks, and aggregate fluctuations
  • a case study - restructuring in the steel industry
  • differences among recessions. Job flows, worker flows, and unemployment over the business cycle: context and motivation
  • the relationship between job flows and the unemployement rate
  • gross worker flows - concepts and magnitudes
  • the time-series relationship between worker and job flows: total unemployement flows, unemployment flows by reason, unemployment flows by age and sex, putting the pieces together, some missing pieces
  • appendix: seasonal variation in the flows. Economic and policy implications: the limitations of our statistical portrait
  • heterogeneity in job growth outcomes. (Part contents).
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780262540933

Description

The authors describe in detail those characteristics that destroy andcreate jobs over time (including industry of origin, wage payments,international trade exposure, factor intensity, size, age, andproductivity performance), while also providing a broader measure ofthe process that will be directly relevant to macroeconomists andpolicymakers. Job Creation and Destruction is the culmination of a long, ongoing research program at the Center for Economic Studies. Using the most complete plant- level data source currently available-the Longitudinal Research Data constructed by the Census Bureau-it focuses on the U.S. manufacturing sector from 1972 to 1988 and develops a statistical portrait of the microeconomic adjustments to the many economic events that affect businesses and workers. The picture that emerges is one of large, persistent, and highly concentrated gross job flows, with job destruction dominating the cyclical feaures of net job flows. The authors describe in detail those characteristics that destroy and create jobs over time (including industry of origin, wage payments, international trade exposure, factor intensity, size, age, and productivity performance), while also providing a broader measure of the process that will be directly relevant to macroeconomists and policymakers.

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