Job Creation, Job Destruction and the Role of Small Firms: Firm-Level Evidence for the UK*

Job Creation, Job Destruction and Small Firms: Evidence for the UK

We use the newly available ARD establishment level data set for UK manufacturing to document job creation and job destruction. With these data we can document job creation and destruction more fully than in previous studies. Due to data limitations, some studies are forced to ignore the contribution of entry and exit of firms to job creation destruction or use data that understate the number of...

Job Creation and Destruction : Evidence from Spain

In this paper we examine the effect of innovation on job creation and job destruction in Spanish manufacturing. Our empirical analysis is based on firm-level longitudinal data from which we have information on employment and innovation activity. The estimation approach consists of a two-step procedure that takes into account the fact that firms endogenously choose positive, negative or zero gro...

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...

The determinants of job creation and destruction: plant-level evidence for Eastern and Western Germany

We examine job creation and destruction in Eastern and Western Germany for the period of 1999 to 2004, using a large dataset, which enables us to capture clearly entries and exits. There are pronounced differences between the two parts of Germany in terms of magnitude and composition of gross job flows. Considering interaction effects between all variables, weighted regressions show that job cr...