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Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data

Timothy Dunne, J. Jensen, and Mark J. Roberts

Abstract

The Census Bureau has recently begun releasing official statistics that measure the movements of firms in and out of business and workers in and out of jobs. The economic analyses in this book exploit this newly available data on establishments, firms, and workers, to address issues in industrial organization, labor, growth, macroeconomics, and international trade. The volume brings together a group of economists to probe topics such as firm dynamics across countries; patterns of employment dynamics; firm dynamics in nonmanufacturing industries such as retail, health services, and agriculture; ... More

Keywords: Census Bureau, business, workers, jobs, establishments, firms, industrial organization, macroeconomics, international trade

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2009 Print ISBN-13: 9780226172569
Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: February 2013 DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226172576.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Timothy Dunne, editor

J. Jensen, editor

Mark J. Roberts, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Studies in Income and Wealth Volume 68

National Bureau of Economic Research

Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research

Prefatory Note

Introduction Producer Dynamics

Timothy Dunne, J. Bradford Jensen, and Mark J. Roberts

I Cross-country Comparison of Producer Dynamics

1 Measuring and Analyzing Cross-Country Differences in Firm Dynamics

Eric Bartelsman, John Haltiwanger and Stefano Scarpetta

II Employment Dynamics

2 Studying the Labor Market with the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey

R. Jason Faberman

3 What Can We Learn About Firm Recruitment from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey?

Éva Nagypál

4 Business Employment Dynamics

Richard L. Clayton and James R. Spletzer

5 The LEHD Infrastructure Files and The Creation of The Quarterly Workforce Indicators

John M. Abowd, Bryce E. Stephens, Lars Vilhuber,Fredrik Andersson, Kevin L. McKinney, Marc Roemer, and Simon Woodcock

III Sector Studies of Producer Turnover

6 The Role of Retail

Ronald S. Jarmin, Shawn D. Klimek and Javier Miranda

7 Entry, Exit, and Labor Productivity in U. K. Retailing

Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun

8 The Dynamics of Market Structure and Market Size in Two Health Services Industries

Timothy Dunne, Shawn D. Klimek, Mark J. Roberts, and Daniel Yi Xu

9 Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses

Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger, Ronald S. Jarmin, C. J. Krizan, Javier Miranda, Alfred Nucci, and Kristin Sandusky

10 Producer Dynamics in Agriculture Empirical Evidence

Mary Clare Ahearn, Penni Korb, and Jet Yee

IV Employer-Employee Dynamics

11 Ownership Change, Productivity, and Human Capital

Donald S. Siegel, Kenneth L. Simons, and Tomas Lindstrom

12 The Link between Human Capital, Mass Layoffs, and Firm Deaths

John M. Abowd, Kevin L. McKinney,, and Lars Vilhuber

13 The Role of Fringe Benefits in Employer and Workforce Dynamics

Anja Decressin, Tomeka Hill, Kristin Mccue, and Martha Stinson

V Producer Dynamics in International Markets

14 Importers, Exporters, and Multinationals

Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, and Peter K. Schott

15 The Impact of Trade on Plant Scale, Production-Run Length, and Diversification

John Baldwin and Wulong Gu

End Matter

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index