Cyclical versus Secular Movements in Employment Creation and Destruction

Randall Eberts and Edward Montgomery

No 5162, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper offers an analysis of cyclical and secular patterns in job turnover using establishment-level data. We provide evidence from multiple data sets that show that the job turnover process is markedly different over time and across regions. Over time, we find that employment fluctuations are associated primarily with job destruction. Across regions, employment differences are associated more with job creation. Differences were found between the cyclical (within) and secular (across state) responses in job creation and destruction to output shocks. Movements in job creation and destruction were also found to be related to the types of human capital externalities or technological spillovers used to explain long-run differences in regional or national growth rates.

JEL-codes: E24 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995-06
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Published as FRBCL, Vol. 30, no. 3 (1994): 14-26.

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