Job Creation and Destruction by Steven J. Davis, Scott Schuh, John C. Haltiwanger

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 1996.

Job Creation and Destruction is the culmination of a long, ongoing research program at the Center for Economic Studies. Using the most complete plant- level data source currently available—the Longitudinal Research Data constructed by the Census Bureau—it focuses on the U.S. manufacturing sector from 1972 to 1988 and develops a statistical portrait of the microeconomic adjustments to the many economic events that affect businesses and workers. The picture that emerges is one of large, persistent, and highly concentrated gross job flows, with job destruction dominating the cyclical feaures of net job flows.

The authors describe in detail those characteristics that destroy and create jobs over time (including industry of origin, wage payments, international trade exposure, factor intensity, size, age, and productivity performance), while also providing a broader measure of the process that will be directly relevant to macroeconomists and policymakers.

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Focusing on the US manufacturing sector from 1972 to 1988, this study addresses the employer rather than worker side of the process, with attention to the relationship between job creation and destruction and employer characteristics. The picture that emerges is one of large, persistent, and highly concentrated gross job creation and destruction, with job destruction dominating the cyclical features of aggregate employment. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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