A comparison of job creation and job destruction in Canada and the United States / by John Baldwin, Timothy Dunne, and John Haltiwanger.: CS11-0019/64E-PDF

"In recent years a growing number of countries have constructed data series on job creation and job destruction using establishment-level data sets. This paper provides a description and detailed comparison of these new data series for the United States and Canada. First, the Canadian and United States industry-level job creation and destruction data are remarkably similar. Industries with high (low) job creation in the U.S. are evidenced by high (low) job creation in Canada. The same is true for job destruction. In addition, the overall magnitude of gross job flows in the two countries is comparable. Second, the time-series patterns of creation and destruction are qualitatively similar but do differ in a number of important respects. In both countries, job destruction is much more cyclically volatile than job creation. This cyclical asymmetry is, however, more pronounced in the United States. The paper finishes with a characterization of the job flow patterns using a modified Blanchard and Diamond (1992) model."--Abstract.

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Department/Agency Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch.
Title A comparison of job creation and job destruction in Canada and the United States / by John Baldwin, Timothy Dunne, and John Haltiwanger.
Series title Research paper series ; no. 64
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Other language editions [French]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Issued also in French under title: Comparaison de la création et de la disparition d'emplois au Canada et aux États-Unis.
Digitized edition from print [produced by Statistics Canada].
Includes bibliographic references.
Publishing information [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada, 1994.
Author / Contributor Baldwin, John R.(John Russel)
Dunne, Timothy.
Haltiwanger, John.
Description 26 p.
Catalogue number
  • CS11-0019/64E-PDF
Subject terms Job creation
Labour market
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