Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States: Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data / Melissa Bjelland, Bruce Fallick, John Haltiwanger, Erika McEntarfer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bjelland, Melissa.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Fallick, Bruce.

Haltiwanger, John.

McEntarfer, Erika.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w13867.

NBER working paper series no. w13867

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2008.

Summary:

We use administrative data linking workers and firms to study employer-to-employer flows. After discussing how to identify such flows in quarterly data, we investigate their basic empirical patterns. We find that the pace of employer-to-employer flows is high, representing about 4 percent of employment and 30 percent of separations each quarter. The pace of employer-to-employer flows is highly procyclical, and varies systematically across worker, job and employer characteristics. Our findings regarding job tenure and earnings dynamics suggest that for those workers moving directly to new jobs, the new jobs are generally better jobs; however, this pattern is highly procyclical. There are rich patterns in terms of origin and destination of industries. We find somewhat surprisingly that more than half of the workers making employer-to-employer transitions switch even broadly-defined industries (NAICS super-sectors).

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Print version record

March 2008.