Gross Job Creation, Gross Job Destruction, and Employment Reallocation

Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Transition Economy: Ownership, Firm Size, and Gross Job Flows in Polish Manufacturing

Comprehensive firm-level data for Polish manufacturing show that in state-owned firms the large drop in net employment since the start of the transition in 1990 has been driven by a jump in the job destruction rate; job creation, by contrast, is located disproportionately in the private sector. Small firms are more dynamic than large firms, but even after controlling for size, private firms hav...

Gross Job Flows

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Job Creation and Destruction

Job Creation and Job Destruction in Argentina

J Jo ob b C Cr re ea at ti io on n a an nd d J Jo ob b D De es st tr ru uc ct ti io on n i in n A Ar rg ge en nt ti in na a Development Bank for the "Labor Markets and Globalization Conference", October 2003. We are grateful to Gustavo Marquez and Carolina Czastkiewicz for their useful comments and to Hugo Hopenhayn who kindly gave us the panel data for the years 1989 to 1995. We would also lik...

Job Creation, Job Destruction and Employment Growth in Transition Countries in the 90's