Hires, quits, and layoffs exhibit strong, highly nonlinear relationships to employer growth rates in the cross section. Simple statistical models of these relationships greatly improve our ability to account for fluctuations in aggregate worker flows and enable us to construct synthetic measures of hires, separations, quits, and layoffs back to 1990.

The decline in unemployment inflows is interpreted as a decrease in the intensity of idiosyncratic labor demand shocks, a key parameter in search and matching models of unemployment.

The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey is an innovative data program that presents measurement issues that are imperfectly understood.

New data sources and products developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of the Census highlight the dynamic character of U.S. labor markets.

Recent research points to a shift in recruiting behavior by employers as an important factor in the distressing U.S. jobs situation. Employers have influenced the pace of job filling by the intensity of their recruiting efforts.