• Purpose
• Sources
• Data Available
• Forms of Publication
• Uses
• Seasonal Adjustment
• Concepts and Methodology

Current

• Quarterly Data on Business Employment Dynamics (HTML) (PDF)
• County Employment and Wages (HTML) (PDF)
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Archived

• Archived Business Employment Dynamics Releases (4th Quarter, 2002 forward)

• NEW Assessing the Timeliness of Business Births in BLS Establishment Statistics (PDF 71K)

• Most Requested Statistics--Select from lists of the most popular Business Employment Dynamics statistics
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• Private sector gross job gains and gross job losses, seasonally adjusted, September 1992-December 2003
• Components of private sector job gains and job losses, seasonally adjusted, September 1992-December 2003

• State Publications using Geocoded QCEW data
• Timothy R. Pivetz, Michael A. Searson, and James R. Spletzer, “Measuring Job and Establishment Flows with BLS Longitudinal Microdata.” April 2001 Monthly Labor Review
• R. Jason Faberman. “Job Creation and Destruction within Washington and Baltimore.” September 2001 Monthly Labor Review
• R. Jason Faberman. “Job flows and labor dynamics in the U.S. Rust Belt.” September 2002 Monthly Labor Review
• Joshua Pinkston and James Spletzer, "Annual Measures of Job Creation and Job Destruction Created from Quarterly Microdata" (PDF 35K)
• R. James Spletzer, R. Jason Faberman, Akbar Sadeghi, David M. Talan, and Richard L. Clayton, "Business Employment Dynamics: New Data on Gross Job Gains and Losses." April 2004 Monthly Labor Review
• R. Jason Faberman, "Gross Job Flows Over the Past Two Business Cycles: Not All 'Recoveries' are Created Equal." 2004 Working Paper (PDF 194K)
• Cordelia Okolie, "Why Size Class Methodology Matters in Analyses of Net and Gross Job Flows" (PDF) the July 2004 Monthly Labor Review

• Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages --a quarterly count of employment and wages reported by employers covering 98 percent of U.S. jobs, available at the county, metropolitan area, state and national levels by industry.
• Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the CES survey (National) --monthly national data by detailed industry on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on the payrolls of nonfarm establishments.
• Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the CES survey (State and Area) --monthly data on employment, hours, and earnings by industry and geographic area.

• Wage and Hour Division of the Employment Standards Administration: Frequently Asked Questions --Answers to questions about wages, overtime, work hours, recordkeeping, and child labor.

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Business Employment Dynamics
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