National Bureau of Economic Research

Conference on Research in Income and Wealth:

Timothy Dunne, J. Bradford Jensen, Mark J. Roberts - Organizers

Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data

April 8 and 9, 2005

 

Hyatt Regency Bethesda

One Bethesda Metro Center

Bethesda MD  20814

 

PROGRAM

 

Friday,  April 8, 2005

 

 

8:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30 a.m.

Welcome – T. Dunne, J. B. Jensen, and M. Roberts

 

Introductory Remarks – Charles Louis Kincannon, Director, Bureau of the Census

 

 

 

Session I: Employment Turnover

 

Chair: John Galvin, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

9:00 a.m.

Measuring and Analyzing Cross-Country Differences in Firm Dynamics  

 

Eric Bartelsman, Free University of Amsterdam

 

John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER

Stefano Scarpetta, The World Bank

 

 

 

Discussant: Timothy Dunne, University of Oklahoma

 

 

9:45 a.m.

The LEHD Infrastructure Files and the Creation of the Quarterly Workforce Indicators

 

John Abowd, Cornell University and NBER

 

Kevin McKinney, Bureau of the Census

 

Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University

 

Simon Woodcock, Bureau of the Census

 

 

 

Discussant: Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

10:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

 

 

10:45 a.m.

Business Employment Dynamics

 

Richard Clayton and James Spletzer, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

 

Discussant: Kenneth Troske, University of Missouri

 

 

11:30 a.m.

Studying the Labor Market with the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey

 

R. Jason Faberman, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

 

Discussant: Éva Nagypál, Northwestern University

 

 

12:15 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

 

Session II: Topics in Firm Dynamics

 

Chair: Charles Hulten, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

1:30 p.m.

Measuring The Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses: Integrating the Employer and Nonemployer Universes

 

Steven Davis, University of Chicago and NBER

 

John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER

 

Ron Jarmin, Center for Economic Studies, Bureau of the Census

 

C.J. Krizan, Center for Economic Studies, Bureau of the Census

 

Kristin Sandusky, Center for Economic Studies, Bureau of the Census

 

 

 

Discussant: Thomas Holmes, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

2:15 p.m.

Producer Dynamics in Agriculture: Empirical Evidence

 

Mary Ahearn, Jet Yee, and Penni Korb, Department of Agriculture

 

 

 

Discussant: Spiro Stefanou, The Pennsylvania State University

 

 

3:00 p.m.

Coffee Break

 

 

 

Session III:  International Trade and Producer Dynamics

 

Chair: David Richardson, Syracuse University and NBER

 

 

3:15 p.m.

Importers, Exporters and Multinationals: A Portrait of Firms in the U.S. that Trade Goods

 

Andrew Bernard, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

J. Bradford Jensen, Institute for International Economics

 

Peter Schott, Yale University and NBER

 

 

 

Discussant: James Harrigan, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER

 

 

4:00 p.m.

The Impact of Trade on Plant Scale, Production-Run Length and Diversification

 

John Baldwin and Wulong Gu, Statistics Canada

 

 

 

Discussant: James Tybout, The Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

 

4:45 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

5:00 p.m.

CRIW Members’ Meeting

 

 

Saturday, April 9, 2005

 

 

8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 

Session IV: Geography and Producer Dynamics

 

Chair: Frederick Knickerbocker, Bureau of the Census

 

 

9:00 a.m.

Spatial Mobility and Geographic Concentration

 

Mohammad Arzaghi, Brown University

 

James Davis, Boston Census Research Data Center

 

 

 

Discussant: Stuart Rosenthal, Syracuse University

 

 

9:45 a.m.

The Evolution of Retail Markets in Metropolitan, Micropolitan and Rural Regions

 

Ron Jarmin, Shawn Klimek, and Javier Miranda

Center for Economic Studies, Bureau of the Census

 

 

 

Discussant: Jeffrey Campbell,Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER

 

 

10:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

 

 

10:45 a.m.

Entry and Exit in Geograpic Markets

 

Timothy Dunne, University of Oklahoma

 

Shawn Klimek, Center for Economic Studies, Bureau of the Census

 

Mark Roberts, The Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

Daniel Xu, The Pennsylvania State University

 

 

 

Discussant: Steven Berry, Yale University and NBER

 

 

11:30 a.m.

Entry, Exit and Labour Productivity in U.K. Retailing:  Evidence from Micro Data

 

Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun, University of London

 

 

 

Discussant: David Audretsch, Indiana University

 

 

12:15 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

 

Session V:  Linkages Between Producer and Employee Dynamics

 

Chair: Dennis Fixler, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

 

1:30 p.m.

The Link Between Human Capital Flows, Mass Layoffs and Firm Deaths

 

John Abowd, Cornell University and NBER

 

Kevin McKinney, Bureau of the Census

 

Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University

 

 

 

Discussant: V. Joseph Hotz, UCLA and NBER

 

 

2:15 p.m.

Coffee Break

 

 

2:30 p.m.

Ownership Change, Productivity and Human Capital:  New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data in Swedish Manufacturing

 

Donald Siegel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

Kenneth Simons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

Tomas Lindstrom, National Institute of Economic Research

 

 

 

Discussant: Judith Hellerstein, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

3:15 p.m.

The Role of Fringe Benefits in Employer and Workforce Dynamics

 

Anja Decressin, Tomeka Hill, Kristin McCue, and Martha Stinson

Bureau of the Census

 

 

 

Discussant: Daniel Black, Syracuse University

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Adjourn