Employment Dynamics and Business Relocation: New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series

By David Neumark, Junfu Zhang, Brandon Wall. Social Science Research Network, 2005

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We analyze and assess new evidence on employment dynamics from a new data source – the National Establishment Time Series (NETS). The NETS offers advantages over existing data sources for studying employment dynamics, including tracking business establishment relocations that can contribute to job creation or destruction on a regional level. Our primary purpose in this paper is to assess the reliability of the NETS data along a number of dimensions, and we conclude that it is a reliable data source although not without limitations. We also illustrate the usefulness of the NETS data by reporting, for California, a full decomposition of employment change into its six constituent processes, including job creation and destruction stemming from business relocation, which has figured prominently in policy debates but on which there has been no systematic evidence.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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1. David Neumark
2. Junfu Zhang
3. Brandon Wall
4. Lawrence M. Kahn
5. Francine D. Blau
6. John C. Ham

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2. Brandon Wall
3. Junfu Zhang

Citations in the corpus

• Urban revival in America (2020, unknown): “Neumark et al. (2007) assess the reliability of the NETS data by comparing it to other establishment datasets (i.”
• Sharing Risk with the Government: How Taxes Affect Corporate Risk Taking (2017, unknown): “15 Neumark, Zhang, and Wall (2007) assess NETS along various dimensions and conclude that it is generally reliable. ts s ttotali tsi ttotali tsi ti Tsales sales employees employees ratetax , ,, ,, ,, ,, , 2 1 2 1”
• Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series (2011, methodology): “21 We have previously used the NETS data for California to study business relocation (Neumark et al., 2007) and the contribution of new firms to employment growth (Neumark et al.”
• Diverging Trends in National and Local Concentration (2018, unknown): “Neumark et al. (2006) and Barnatchez et al. (2017) argue that the NETS data set might at times be slow in reporting the entry and exit of small firms.”
• What Is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent “Lottery” (2019, unknown): “See Neumark, Zhang, and Wall (2005) for a comprehensive account of D&B’s methodology.”
• Do Enterprise Zones Create Jobs? Evidence from California's Enterprise Zone Program (2010, unknown): “The table also shows a 12 Neumark et al. (2007) conducted a detailed investigation of the quality of the NETS data along numerous dimensions, including issues raised in earlier criticism of the Dun & Bradstreet data from which the NETS is constructed (Davis et al., 1996).”
• Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting (2019, unknown): “In country-wide spatial equilibrium models, Peters et al. (2018) include non-homothetic preferences model to study the heterogenous impact of structural change across U.S. counties and Fajgelbaum and Gaubert (2018) study optimal spatial policies in models with heterogeneous workers who have heteroge”