The Establishment-Level Behavior of Vacancies and Hiring

Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman, John C. Haltiwanger

NBER Working Paper No. 16265
Issued in August 2010

---- Acknowledgements -----

We thank Shigeru Fujita, Giuseppe Moscarini, Éva Nagypál, Josh Pinkston, Fabien Postel-Vinay, Mike Pries, Richard Rogerson, Rob Shimer and seminar participants at Berkeley, Chicago, LSE, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, National University of Singapore, Penn, Stanford, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, Kansas City, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco, and several conferences for many helpful comments. We thank Bruce Fallick, Charles Fleischman, and Rob Shimer for providing CPS data on gross worker flows and Marios Michaelides, Nathan Brownback, April Chen and Olga Deriy for excellent research assistance. Davis gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Booth School of Business. The views expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official positions or policies of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Federal Reserve System, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Bureau of the Census or the views of other staff members.

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