This site contains the cross-country data on job flows and
productivity measures. Available
for download is a zip file (link below) with the data
and documentation. The job flow measures
are available at a country, sector, size, and year level of observation and the
productivity measures are available at a country, sector, year
level of observation. As described in detail in the documentation, available
measures include not just first moments but higher moments including measures
of dispersion and covariances. For example, the job flow measures
permit decomposing net employment growth at a disaggregated level into job
creation, job destruction as well as the contribution of entry and exit to job
creation and job destruction. The data
were produced from a series of projects funded by the OECD, the World Bank and
other sources. The methodology is
provided in the attached files but an overview for the methodology can be found
at:
Bartelsman, Eric, John Haltiwanger
and Stefano Scarpetta "Measuring and Analyzing
Cross Country Differences in Firm Dynamics," in Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data,
(Dunne, Jensen and Roberts, eds.) NBER/University
of Chicago Press, 2009.
Project RA-2009-06-024
funded by the International Growth Centre provided support for producing the
datasets and documentation that are made available at this weblink.
Link to the zip file:
http://econweb.umd.edu/~haltiwan/BHS_jobflows_productivity/