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.

An analysis on the cost of energy showed how the supply costs vary with purchase quantity.

A new database can combine administrative records and survey data for all employer and nonemployer business units in the United States.

What is the variability of business growth rates since 1976 in the private sector of the United States?

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.

This book describes in detail the characteristics that destroy and create jobs over time.