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Title: Job Creation and Job Destruction in Britain: 1980-90

Author(s): David Blanchflower and Simon Burgess

Publication Date: February 1994

Keyword(s): Growth of Firms, Job Creation, Job Destruction and Reallocation

Programme Area(s): Human Resources

Abstract: This paper characterizes the processes of job creation and job destruction (JC&D) in Britain, and provides more `stylized facts' to hold up against models of JC&D. The analysis is based on three large cross-sections of continuing plants in Britain. The issues examined include the diversity of employment growth rates and the correspondingly substantial JC&D rates. We show that both job creation and destruction are extremely concentrated. The top decile of job creators seem to be made up of large firms growing moderately and medium-sized firms growing rapidly.

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Blanchflower, D and Burgess, S. 1994. 'Job Creation and Job Destruction in Britain: 1980-90'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=912