Job creation, job destruction, and the real exchange rate

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 Labour Demand in Slovenia

This paper uses a unique firm level data base of traditional and newly established private enterprises to investigate gross job flows and labour demand in the transition period in Slovenia. We find that job destruction dominates job creation in the early years of transition, but later in the transition job destruction diminishes. The excess job reallocation rate, a measure for restructuring, is...

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...

Aggregate Job Creation, Job Destruction and Job Turnover in the Irish Manufacturing Sector*

Using an annual employment survey data set we construct aggregate job flow rates for the Ir ish manufacturing sector for the period 1974 to 1994. We report the existence of simul­ taneous job creation and job destruction, inducing job turnover well above that necessary to accommodate net employment changes at the aggregate or even very refined sectoral level, over the entire sample period. This...