The Census Bureau has recently begun releasing official statistics that measure the movements of firms in and out of business and workers in and out of jobs. The economic analyses in Producer Dynamics exploit this newly available data on establishments, firms, and workers, to address issues in industrial organization, labor, growth, macroeconomics, and international trade. This innovative volume brings together a group of renowned economists to probe topics such as firm dynamics across countries; patterns of employment dynamics; firm dynamics in nonmanufacturing industries such as retail, health services, and agriculture; employer-employee turnover from matched worker/firm data sets; and turnover in international markets. Producer Dynamics will serve as an invaluable reference to economists and policy makers seeking to understand the links between firms and workers, and the sources of economic dynamics, in the age of globalization.

Prefatory Note Introduction Timothy Dunne, J. Bradford Jensen and Mark J. Roberts I. Cross-Country Comparison of Producer Dynamics 1. Measuring and Analyzing Cross-country Differences in Firm Dynamics - Eric Bartelsman, John Haltiwanger and Stefano Scarpetta, Comment: Timothy Dunne II. Employment Dynamics 2. Studying the Labor Market with the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey - R. Jason Faberman 3. What Can We Learn About Firm Recruitment from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey? - Éva Nagypál 4. Business Employment Dynamics - Richard L. Clayton and James R. Spletzer 5. The LEHD Infrastructure Files and the Creation of the Quarterly Workforce Indicators - John M. Abowd, Bryce E. Stephens, Lars Vilhuber, Fredrik Andersson, Kevin L. McKinney, Marc Roemer and Simon Woodcock, Comment: Katharine G. Abraham III. Sector Studies of Producer Turnover 6. The Role of Retail Chains: National, Regional and Industry Results - Ronald S. Jarmin, Shawn D. Klimek, and Javier Miranda, Comment: Jeffrey R. Campbell 7. Entry, Exit and Labor Productivity in U.K. Retailing: Evidence from Micro Data - Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun 8. The Dynamics of Market Structure and Market Size in Two Health Services Industries - Timothy Dunne, Shawn D. Klimek, Mark J. Roberts and Yi Xu 9. Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses: Integrating the Employer and Non-employer Universes - Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger, Ronald S. Jarmin, C.J. Krizan, Javier Miranda, Alfred Nucci and Kristin Sandusky, Comment: Thomas J. Holmes 10. Producer Dynamics in Agriculture: Empirical Evidence - Mary Clare Ahearn, Penni Korb and Jet Yee, Comment: Spiro E. Stefanou IV. Employer-Employee Dynamics 11. Ownership Change, Productivity, and Human Capital: New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data - Donald S. Siegel, Kenneth L. Simons and Tomas Lindstrom, Comment: Judith K. Hellerstein 12. The Link between Human Capital, Mass Layoffs, and Firm Deaths - John M. Abowd, Kevin L. McKinney and Lars Vilhuber 13. The Role of Fringe Benefits in Employer and Workforce Dynamics - Anja Decressin, Tomeka Hill, Kristin McCue and Martha Stinson, Comment: Dan A. Black V. Producer Dynamics in International Markets 14. Importers, Exporters and Multinationals: A Portrait of Firms in the U.S. that Trade Goods - Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen and Peter K. Schott, Comment: James Harrigan 15. The Impact of Trade on Plant Scale, Production-Run Length and Diversification - John Baldwin and Wulong Gu, Comment: James Tybout