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Explaining National Differences in the Size and Industry Distribution of Employment

Davis, Steven; Henrekson, Magnus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

national pension system, wage-setting institutions and the size of the public sector. We characterize these aspects of the … set of policies and institutions, Sweden's employment distribution in the mid-1980s is sharply tilted away from low …

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Small Business and Job Creation: Dissecting the Myth and Reassessing theFacts

Davis, Steven; Haltiwanger, John; Schuh, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993

This paper investigates how job creation and destruction behavior varies by employer size in the U.S. manufacturing sector during the period 1972 to 1988. The paper also evaluates the empirical basis for conventional claims about the job-creating prowess of small businesses. The chief findings...

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The Climate for Business Development and Employment Growth in Puerto Rico

Davis, Steven; Rivera-Batiz, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Employment rates in Puerto Rico range from 55 to 65 percent of U.S. rates during the past thirty years. This huge employment shortfall holds for men and women, cuts across all education groups, and is deeper for persons without a college degree. The shortfall is concentrated in the private...

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Industrial Policy, Employer Size, and Economic Performance in Sweden

Davis, Steven; Henrekson, Magnus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

neutral set of policies and institutions, Sweden's employment distribution is sharply tilted away from lower wage industries …

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Labor Market Flows in the Cross Section and Over Time

Davis, Steven; Haltiwanger, John; Faberman, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Many theoretical models of labor market search imply a tight link between worker flows (hires and separations) and job gains and losses at the employer level. Partly motivated by these theories, we exploit establishment-level data from U.S. sources to study the relationship between worker flows...

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Recessions and the Cost of Job Loss

Davis, Steven; von Wachter, Till Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

-displacement earnings if displaced in mass-layoff events that occur when the national unemployment rate is below 6 percent. They lose a … staggering 2.8 years of pre-displacement earnings if displaced when the unemployment rate exceeds 8 percent. These results … opportunities respond to contemporaneous economic conditions. Finally, we confront leading models of unemployment fluctuations with …

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Labor Market Fluidity and Economic Performance

Davis, Steven; Haltiwanger, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

U.S. labor markets became much less fluid in recent decades. Job reallocation rates fell more than a quarter after 1990, and worker reallocation rates fell more than a quarter after 2000. The declines cut across states, industries and demographic groups defined by age, gender and education....

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Recruiting Intensity during and after the Great Recession: National and Industry Evidence

Davis, Steven; Haltiwanger, John; Faberman, R. Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We measure job-filling rates and recruiting intensity per vacancy at the national and industry levels from January 2001 to September 2011 using data from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. Construction makes up less than 5 percent of employment but accounts for more than 40 percent of...

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The Establishment-Level Behavior of Vacancies and Hiring

Davis, Steven; Haltiwanger, John; Faberman, R. Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper is the first to study vacancies, hires, and vacancy yields at the establishment level in the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, a large sample of U.S. employers. To interpret the data, we develop a simple model that identifies the flow of new vacancies and the job-filling rate...

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Business Volatility, Job Destruction, and Unemployment

Davis, Steven; Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Unemployment inflows fell from 4 percent of employment per month in the early 1980s to 2 percent or less by the mid … parameter in search and matching models of unemployment. According to these models, a lower intensity of idiosyncratic shocks … produces less job destruction, fewer workers flowing through the unemployment pool and less frictional unemployment. To …

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