The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction in an African Economy: Evidence from Ethiopia

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 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 and Destruction

The dynamics of job creation and destruction in Australia

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...