Digitization and its effect on employment has been discussed within the discipline of Information Systems (IS) for a long time. The net effect of digitization on job creation and job loss has never been clear. However, it seems obvious that today's IS and the accompanying digitization of data and processes may destroy jobs among knowledge workers just as automation replaced the need for manufac...

In this paper we study the cyclical behavior of job and worker flows. Wefindfor the Netherlands that employment and unemployment flows are large, relative to the stocks, that both the sum ofemployment in and outflow and the sum of job creation and destruction (je and jd) move countercyclical. Other issues that we examined include the importance ofaggregate vs. sectoral shocks, the persistence o...

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...

s: An Endogenous Job Contact Network in the Laboratory David Powers ICES, Economics Department, George Mason University ABSTRACT: Jobs are commonly found through social contacts, and certain labor market conditions, such as the job turnover rate and rate of job creation, may have measurable impact for social networking choice. This work provides a laboratory test of Galeotti and Merlino “Endoge...

Since version 2 of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) the MPI job has the ability to start new processes dynamically at runtime. The MPI implementation has to care for the creation of new communication channels in those situations. This work desribes the implications of dynamic process creation on an communication module for the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI). The module is developed for th...

In the U.S. labor market, the vacancy-unemployment ratio and employment react sluggishly to productivity shocks. We show that the job matching model in its standard form cannot reproduce these patterns due to excessively rapid vacancy responses. Extending the model to incorporate sunk costs for vacancy creation yields highly realistic dynamics. Creation costs induce entrant firms to smooth the ...

In the U.S. labor market, the vacancy-unemployment ratio and employment react sluggishly to productivity shocks. We show that the job matching model in its standard form cannot reproduce these patterns due to excessively rapid vacancy responses. Extending the model to incorporate sunk costs for vacancy creation yields highly realistic dynamics. Creation costs induce entrant firms to smooth the ...

In the past decade the number of studies in labour market dynamics has proliferated. Especially the papers by Davis and Haltiwanger ~1990, 1992! on job creation and job destruction in the USA were followed by a host of studies on job flows in other countries. Examples include Burda and Wyplosz ~1994! for a number of European countries, Leonard and Van Audenrode ~1993! for Belgium and Blanchflow...