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Differences in Job Growth and Persistence in Services and Manufacturing

Armington, Catherine; Acs, Zoltan - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2000

Employment flows in services have greatly exceeded those in manufacturing over the recent decade. We examine these differences and their variation over establishment sizes and types. We test three hypotheses which have been offered to explain these differences: (1) that the difference in...

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MEASURES OF JOB FLOW DYNAMICS IN THE U.S.*

Armington, Catherine; Robb, Alicia; Acs, Zoltan J - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1999

. We utilize the LEEM data to measure recent gross and net job flows for the entire U. S. economy. We then examine the … very sensitive to the size classification method, even when data and all other methodology are identical. When mean size …

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Mergers and Acquisitions in the United States: 1990-1994

Armington, Catherine; Robb, Alicia - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1998

Business merger and acquisition activity has been brisk in the United States in the recent past. Yet very little information has been available to help researchers understand the effects of this activity on jobs, businesses, and the American economy. This paper takes a first look at examining...

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Longitudinal Establishment And Enterprise Microdata (LEEM) Documentation

Acs, Zoltan J; Armington, Catherine - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1998

the U.S. Small Business Administration. The LEEM links three years (1990, 1994, and 1995) of basic data for each private … sector establishment with payroll in any of those years, along with data on the firm to which the establishment belongs each … year. The LEEM data will facilitate both broader and more detailed analysis of patterns of job creation and destruction in …

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Job Flow Dynamics in the Service Sector

Acs, Zoltan J; Armington, Catherine - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1999

This paper uses the new comprehensive Longitudinal Establishment and Enterprise Microdata at CES to investigate gross and net job flows for 1990 to 1995 for all establishments in the service sector. After examining the recent shifts in the distribution of employment in non-financial services,...

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CES-WP-99-1 tables

Robb, Alicia; Armington, Catherine; Yates, William A; … - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1999

By Alicia Robb, Catherine Armington, William A Yates, Zoltan Acs <p>CES-WP-99-1A December 1999

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The Geographic Concentration of New Firm Formation and Human Capital: Evidence from the Cities

Acs, Zoltan J; Armington, Catherine - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2003

The role of education and human capital externalities is a key variable in theories of economic growth. However, the mechanism by which these externalities are realized has not been fully investigated. We examine the relationship between area differences in the levels of human capital and...

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Endogenous Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities

Acs, Zoltan J; Armington, Catherine - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2003

Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the …

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