Producer Dynamics
New Evidence from Micro Data
Producer Dynamics
New Evidence from Micro Data
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 Producer Dynamics exploit this newly available data on establishments, firms, and workers, to address issues in industrial organization, labor, growth, macroeconomics, and international trade.
This innovative volume brings together a group of renowned 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; employer-employee turnover from matched worker/firm data sets; and turnover in international markets. Producer Dynamics will serve as an invaluable reference to economists and policy makers seeking to understand the links between firms and workers, and the sources of economic dynamics, in the age of globalization.
624 pages | 92 line drawings, 142 tables | 6 x 9 | © 2009
National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth
Economics and Business: Business--Business Economics and Management Studies, Business--Industry and Labor
Table of Contents
Prefatory Note
Introduction
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
Comment: Timothy Dunne
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
Comment: Katharine G. Abraham
III. Sector Studies of Producer Turnover
6. The Role of Retail Chains: National, Regional and Industry Results
Ronald S. Jarmin, Shawn D. Klimek, and Javier Miranda
Comment: Jeffrey R. Campbell
7. Entry, Exit and Labor Productivity in U.K. Retailing: Evidence from Micro Data
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 Yi Xu
9. Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses: Integrating the Employer and Non-employer Universes
Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger, Ronald S. Jarmin, C.J. Krizan, Javier Miranda, Alfred Nucci and Kristin Sandusky
Comment: Thomas J. Holmes
10. Producer Dynamics in Agriculture: Empirical Evidence
Mary Clare Ahearn, Penni Korb and Jet Yee
Comment: Spiro E. Stefanou
IV. Employer-Employee Dynamics
11. Ownership Change, Productivity, and Human Capital: New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Donald S. Siegel, Kenneth L. Simons and Tomas Lindstrom
Comment: Judith K. Hellerstein
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
Comment: Dan A. Black
V. Producer Dynamics in International Markets
14. Importers, Exporters and Multinationals: A Portrait of Firms in the U.S. that Trade Goods
Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen and Peter K. Schott
Comment: James Harrigan
15. The Impact of Trade on Plant Scale, Production-Run Length and Diversification
John Baldwin and Wulong Gu
Comment: James Tybout