Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States: Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

Bjelland, Melissa; Fallick, Bruce; Haltiwanger, John; McEntarfer, Erika

doi:10.1198/jbes.2011.08053

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“…Early references include Reynolds (1951), Reder (1955), Okun (1973), andHall (1974). Recent analyses include Solon, Whatley, and Stevens (1997), McLaughlin andBils (2001), Devereux (2004), and Bjelland, Fallick, Haltiwanger, and McEntarfer (2011).…”

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Measuring What Employers Do about Entry Wages over the Business Cycle: A New Approach

Martins

Solon

Thomas

2012

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

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Rigidity in real hiring wages plays a crucial role in some recent macroeconomic models. But are hiring wages really so noncyclical? We propose using employer/employee longitudinal data to track the cyclical variation in the wages paid to workers newly hired into specific entry jobs. Illustrating the methodology with 1982–2008 data from the Portuguese census of employers, we find real entry wages were about 1.8 percent higher when the unemployment rate was 1 percentage point lower. Like most recent evidence on other aspects of wage cyclicality, our results suggest that the cyclical elasticity of wages is similar to that of employment. (JEL E24, E32, J31, J64)

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Measuring What Employers Do about Entry Wages over the Business Cycle: A New Approach

Martins

Solon

Thomas

2012

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

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“…In Moscarini and Postel-Vinay (2009, 2012), they find evidence that large firms increase employment more during periods of low unemployment relative to small firms. Consistent with this result, Kahn and McEntarfer (2014) find evidence that high-wage employers increase their employment more 3 For evidence that job-to-job flows are procyclical see Fallick and Fleischman (2004) and Bjelland et. al.…”

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“…A core prediction of the model is that job-to-job flows move workers up the firm size, firm wage job ladder. 5 The model also implies that larger firms will have lower turnover, pay higher wages and poach a larger share of their hires other firms. That larger firms pay higher wages and have lower turnover is well documented in the empirical literature.…”

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Cyclical Reallocation of Workers Across Employers by Firm Size and Firm Wage

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McEntarfer³

2015

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Do the job-to-job moves of workers contribute to the cyclicality of employment growth at different types of firms? In this paper, we use linked employer-employee data to provide direct evidence on the role of job-to-job flows in job reallocation in the U.S. economy. To guide our analysis, we look to the theoretical literature on on-the-job search, which predicts that job-to-job flows should reallocate workers from small to large firms. While this prediction is not supported by the data, we do find that job-to-job moves generally reallocate workers from lower paying to higher paying firms, and this reallocation of workers is highly procyclical. During the Great Recession, this firm wage job ladder collapsed, with net worker reallocation to higher wage firms falling to zero. We also find that differential responses of net hires from non-employment play an important role in the patterns of the cyclicality of employment dynamics across firms classified by size and wage. For example, we find that small and low wage firms experience greater reductions in net hires from non-employment during periods of economic contractions.

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“…More recently, direct job-to-job transition have been analysed in more detail. Bjelland, Fallick, Haltiwanger, and McEntarfer (2008) present descriptive evidence on the importance of worker and firm characteristics for direct job-to-job transitions using linked employer-employee data for the United States. They find that the pace of these transitions is highly procylical, and varies systematically across worker, job and employer characteristics.…”

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The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics

Bachmann

Bechara

2009

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract Using two data sets derived from German administrative data, including a linked employer-employee data set, we investigate the cyclicality of worker and job flows. The analysis stresses the importance of two-sided labour market heterogeneity in this context, taking into account both observed and unobserved characteristics. We find that small firms hire mainly unemployed workers, and that they do so at the beginning of an economic expansion. Later on in the expansion, hirings more frequently result from direct job-to-job transitions, with employed workers moving to larger firms. Contrary to our expectations, workers moving to larger firms do not experience significantly larger wage gains than workers moving to smaller establishments. Furthermore, our econometric analysis shows that the interaction of unobserved heterogeneities on the two sides of the labour market plays a more important role for employed job seekers than for the unemployed. JEL Classification: J63, J64, J21, E24 Terms of use: Documents in

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Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States: Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

Cited by 59 publications

References 8 publications

Measuring What Employers Do about Entry Wages over the Business Cycle: A New Approach

Measuring What Employers Do about Entry Wages over the Business Cycle: A New Approach

Cyclical Reallocation of Workers Across Employers by Firm Size and Firm Wage

The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics

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