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Business employment dynamics: new data on gross job gains and losses
James R. Spletzer
Senior Research Economist,
Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
E-mail: spletzer.jim@bls.gov.
R. Jason Faberman
Research Economist,
Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Akbar Sadeghi
Economist,
Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
David M. Talan
Supervisory Economist, Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Richard L. Clayton
Chief, Division of Administrative Statistics and Labor Turnover, Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The new BLS business employment dynamics data series captures establishment-level employment changes that are absent from other BLS series; the detail provided gives researchers insight into business openings, closings, expansions, and contractions across the stages of the business cycle.
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