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New Facts About Factor-Demand Dynamics: Employment, Jobs, and WorkersDaniel S. HamermeshUniversity of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Wolter H.J. HassinkUniversity of Utrecht - Department of General Social Sciences; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Jan C. Van OursTilburg University - Department of Economics; University of Melbourne - Department of Economics January 1994 NBER Working Paper No. w4625 Abstract: We provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the number of jobs at the level of the firm. Using the only available set of data (a nationally representative sample of Dutch firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of all hiring is by firms where employment is not growing; 2) Over half of all firing is by firms that are not contracting; 3) Most firing is by firms that are also hiring; 4) Flows of workers within firms are small compared to flows into and out of firms; and 5) Accounting for simultaneous creation and destruction of jobs within firms adds roughly 15 percent to estimates of economywide job creation and destruction. The results imply that macroeconomic fluctuations can have substantial effects beyond those indicated by net employment changes at the firm level, and that studies of dynamic factor demand must account for variations in gross flows of workers.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 31 working papers seriesDate posted: December 26, 2000Suggested CitationContact Information
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