TY  - JOUR
AU  - Baldwin,John
AU  - Dunne,Timothy
AU  - Haltiwanger,John
TI  - A Comparison of Job Creation and Job Destruction in Canada and the      United States
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4726
PY  - 1994
Y2  - May 1994
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4726
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4726.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
John Baldwin
Statistics Canada
E-Mail: baldjoh@statcan.ca

Timothy Dunne
Department of Economics
Hester Hall
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK  73019
Tel: 405 325 2863
E-Mail: tim.dunne@clev.frb.org

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  - In recent years a growing number of countries have constructed data series on job creation and job destruction using establishment- level data sets.  This paper provides a description and detailed comparison of these new data series for the United States and Canada. First, the Canadian and United States industry-level job creation and destruction rates are remarkably similar.  Industries with high (low) job creation in the U.S. exhibit high (low) job creation in Canada. The same is true for job destruction.  In addition, the overall magnitude of gross job flows in the two countries is comparable. Second, the time-series patterns of creation and destruction are qualitatively similar but do differ in a number of important respects. In both countries, job destruction is much more cyclically volatile than job creation.  This cyclical asymmetry is, however, more pronounced in the United States.  The paper finishes with a characterization of the job flow patterns using a modified Blanchard and Diamond (1992) model.
ER  -