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