TY  - JOUR
AU  - Neumark,David
AU  - Zhang,Junfu
AU  - Wall,Brandon
TI  - Employment Dynamics and Business Relocation: New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11647
PY  - 2005
Y2  - October 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11647
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11647.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David Neumark
Department of Economics
University of California at Irvine
3151 Social Science Plaza
Irvine, CA  92697
Tel: 949-824-8496
Fax: 949/824-2182
E-Mail: dneumark@uci.edu

Junfu Zhang
Department of Economics
Clark University
Worcester, MA  01610
Tel: 508-793-7247
E-Mail: juzhang@clarku.edu

Brandon Wall
Public Policy Institute of California
E-Mail: wall@ppic.org
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2005-10-03
AB  - We analyze and assess new evidence on employment dynamics from a new data source  %uF818 the National Establishment Time Series (NETS). The NETS offers advantages over existing data sources for studying employment dynamics, including tracking business establishment relocations that can contribute to job creation or destruction on a regional level. Our primary purpose in this paper is to assess the reliability of the NETS data along a number of dimensions, and we conclude that it is a reliable data source although not without limitations. We also illustrate the usefulness of the NETS data by reporting, for California, a full decomposition of employment change into its six constituent processes, including job creation and destruction stemming from business relocation, which has figured prominently in policy debates but on which there has been no systematic evidence.
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