TY  - JOUR
AU  - Davis,Steven J.
AU  - Haltiwanger,John
TI  - Measuring Gross Worker and Job Flows
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5133
PY  - 1995
Y2  - May 1995
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5133
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5133.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
M1  - published as Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger. "Measuring Gross Worker and Job Flows," in John Haltiwanger, Marilyn E. Manser and Robert Topel, editors, "Labor Statistics Measurement Issues" University of Chicago Press (1998)

AB  - We combine information from several different studies and data sets to assemble a fuller, more accurate picture of job flows and worker flows in U.S. labor markets.  Our picture characterizes the magnitudes of job and worker flows, the connections between them, their cyclical behavior, differences among identifiable groups of workers and employers, the spatial concentration of job flows, and other aspects of labor market dynamics.  We also assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. data sets that are currently available for measuring labor market flows, and we clarify the relationships among various measures of labor market flow activity that appear in the literature.  Finally, we discuss prospects for using administrative records maintained by U.S. government agencies to develop new longitudinal data sets that would permit timely, detailed and comprehensive measures of gross job and worker flows.
ER  -