TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bjelland,Melissa
AU  - Fallick,Bruce
AU  - Haltiwanger,John
AU  - McEntarfer,Erika
TI  - Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States: Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13867
PY  - 2008
Y2  - March 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13867
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13867.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Melissa Bjelland
U.S. Census Bureau
LEHD
Room 2138, Building 3
4700 Silver Hill Road
Suitland, MD  20746
Tel: 301-763-5285
E-Mail: melissa.bjelland@ey.com

Bruce Fallick
Federal Reserve Board
Washington, DC  20551
Tel: 202-452-3722
Fax: 202-872-4927
E-Mail: bruce.fallick@frb.gov

John C. Haltiwanger
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: 301/405-3504
Fax: 301/405-3542
E-Mail: haltiwan@econ.umd.edu

Erika McEntarfer
U.S. Census Bureau
Center for Economic Studies
4600 Silver Hill Road
ACSD HQ-5K179
Washington, DC 20233 
Tel: (301) 763-8555
E-Mail: erika.mcentarfer@census.gov
AB  - We use administrative data linking workers and firms to study employer-to-employer flows.  After discussing how to identify such flows in quarterly data, we investigate their basic empirical patterns.  We find that the pace of employer-to-employer flows is high, representing about 4 percent of employment and 30 percent of separations each quarter.  The pace of employer-to-employer flows is highly procyclical, and varies systematically across worker, job and employer characteristics.   Our findings regarding job tenure and earnings dynamics suggest that for those workers moving directly to new jobs, the new jobs are generally better jobs; however, this pattern is highly procyclical.  There are rich patterns in terms of origin and destination of industries.  We find somewhat surprisingly that more than half of the workers making employer-to-employer transitions switch even broadly-defined industries (NAICS super-sectors).
ER  -