This paper extends the work of Dunne, Roberts, and Samuelson (1989) and Davis, Haltiwanger, and Schuh (1996) on gross job flows among manufacturing plants. Gross job creation, destruction, and reallocation have been shown to be important in understanding the birth, growth, and death of plants,...

This paper extends the work of Dunne, Roberts, and Samuelson (1989) and Davis, Haltiwanger, and Schuh (1996) on gross job flows among manufacturing plants. Gross job creation, destruction, and reallocation have been shown to be important in understanding the birth, growth, and death of plants,...

This paper is a chapter in our forthcoming monograph, Job Creation, Job Destruction, and International Competition (W.E. Upjohn Institute 2003), and expands on the ideas advanced in Klein, Schuh, and Triest (2003). The chapter is a case study of the impact of the North American Free Trade...