The job openings and labor turnover survey: What initial data show

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 127, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 14-23

  Clark, Kelly A ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

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1. Job openings and labor turnover data, along with a brief analysis, are released monthly in a press release, on the Internet at: http://www.bls.gov/ jit/. Selected data also appear in the Current Labor Statistics department of this publication each month.
2. For additional information about the development of the program, see Kelly Clark and Rosemary.Hyson, "New tools for labor market analysis: the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey," Monthly Labor Review, December 2001, pp. 32-37.
3. Natural resources and mining, information, financial activities, and other services did not show strong seasonal patterns when seasonal adjustment diagnostics were first evaluated.
4. See Katharine G Abraham, "Help-Wanted Advertising, Job Vacancies, and Unemployment," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, no. 1, June 1987, pp. 207-48;
5. and Hoyt Bleakley and Jeffrey C. Fuhrer, "Shifts in the Beveridge Curve, Job Matching, and Labor Market Dynamics," New England Economic Review, September/October 1997, pp. 3-19.
6. See Katharine G. Abraham, "Structural/Frictional vs. Deficient Demand Unemployment: Some New Evidence," American Economic Review, 1983, vol. 73(4), pp. 708-24.
7. See Economic Snapshots, The Economic Policy Institute, Oct. 2, 2002.
8. See Abraham, "Structural/Frictional," p. 708-24.
9. For additional information about the Help-Wanted Advertising Index, see The Conference Board's website at www.conference-board.org
10. See Daniel S. Hamermesh, Wolter H.J. Hassink, and Jan C. van Ours, "Job Turnover and Labor Turnover: A Taxonomy of Employment Dynamics," Annales D'Economie et de Statistique, no. 41/42, 1996, pp. 21-40, for their work concerning Dutch establishments;
11. and John M. Abowd, Patrick Corbel, and Francis Kramarz, "The Entry and Exit of Workers and the Growth of Employment: An Analysis of French Establishments," The Review of Economics and Statistics, 81(2), May 1999, pp. 170-87, for their work concerning French establishments.
12. The correlation coefficient for hires and employment is 0.51 and for quits and employment is 0.44; both are significant at the 95 percent confidence level.
13. See Hoyt Bleakley, Ann E. Ferns, and Jeffrey C. Fuhrer, "New Data on Worker Flows During Business Cycles," New England Economic Review, July/August 1999, pp. 49-76
14. and Patricia M. Anderson and Bruce D. Meyer, "The Extent and Consequences of Job Turnover," Brookings Papers: Microeconomics, 1994, pp. 177-248.
15. For additional information about the Job Absence and Turnover Report, please see the Bureau of National Affairs' website at www.bna.com
16. For additional information about the business employment dynamics, see James R. Spletzer, R. Jason Faberman, Akbar Sadeghi, David M. Talan, and Richard L. Clayton, "Business employment dynamics: new data on gross job gains and losses," Monthly Labor Review, April 2004, pp. 29-42.
17. See Katharine G Abraham and James L. Medoff, "Unemployment, Unsatisfied Demand for Labor, and Compensation Growth in the United States, 1956-1980," National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, no. 781, October 1981.
18. See Barbara Petrongolo and Christopher A. Pissarides, "Looking into the Black Box: A Survey of the Matching Function," Journal of Economic Literature, June 2001, pp. 390-431.