TY  - JOUR
AU  - Davis,Steve J.
AU  - Haltiwanger,John
TI  - Gross Job Creation, Gross Job Destruction and Employment Reallocation
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3728
PY  - 1991
Y2  - June 1991
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3728
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3728.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Steven J. Davis
Booth School of Business
The University of Chicago
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/702-7312
Fax: 773/834-0733
E-Mail: Steven.Davis@ChicagoBooth.edu

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
AB  - This study measures the heterogeneity of establishment-level employment changes in the U.S. manufacturing sector over the 1972 to 1986 period. We measure this heterogeneity in terms of the gross creation and destruction of jobs and the rate at which jobs are reallocated across plants. Our measurement efforts enable us to quantify the connection between job reallocation and worker reallocation, to evaluate theories of heterogeneity in plant-level employment dynamics, and to establish new results related to the cyclical behavior of the labor market.
ER  -