John C. Haltiwanger

About

Professor John C. Haltiwanger is a faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he holds the position of Professor of Economics. His contact information includes a telephone number, fax, and email address, indicating active engagement in academic and professional communication. The webpage references his recent papers, teaching activities, and keynote addresses, suggesting a focus on economic research and education. Additionally, he is associated with the Center for Economic Studies at the Bureau of the Census, which aligns with his research interests in economic data analysis, job flows, and firm-level productivity distributions. His work involves analyzing gross job flows, job creation and destruction, and cross-country data on economic activity, as evidenced by the mention of data and code for specific research papers and macroeconomic data from NBER. Overall, his profile reflects a strong emphasis on empirical research in macroeconomics, labor economics, and economic data analysis.

Research topics

• Economics
• Computer Science
• Macroeconomics
• Engineering
• Statistics
• Mathematics
• Monetary economics
• Mechanical engineering
• Econometrics
• Economic growth

Selected publications

• Changing Business Dynamism and Productivity: Shocks versus Responsiveness

  American Economic Review · 2020 · 192 citations

  The pace of job reallocation has declined in the United States in recent decades. We draw insight from canonical models of business dynamics in which reallocation can decline due to (i ) lower dis persion of idiosyncratic shocks faced by businesses, or (ii ) weaker marginal responsiveness of businesses to shocks. We show that shock dispersion has actually risen, while the responsiveness of business-level employment to productivity has weakened. Moreover, declining responsiveness can account for…

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• Automation and the Workforce: A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022 · 61 citations

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• How Tight Is the US Labor Market?

  Brookings Papers on Economic Activity · 2020 · 48 citations

  We construct a generalized measure of labor market tightness based on the ratio of vacancies to effective searchers. Our generalized measure exhibits substantially less volatility than the standard measure defined as the ratio of vacancies to unemployment. Effective searchers include not only the unemployed but also those who are out of the labor force and the employed. These groups account for a substantial share of hires and their presence mutes the effects of the pronounced countercyclical mo…

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• Tracking Firm Use of AI in Real Time: A Snapshot from the Business Trends and Outlook Survey

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2024-04-01 · 36 citations

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  Timely and accurate measurement of AI use by firms is both challenging and crucial for understanding the impacts of AI on the U.S. economy.We provide new, real-time estimates of current and expected future use of AI for business purposes based on the Business Trends and Outlook Survey for September 2023 to February 2024.During this period, bi-weekly estimates of AI use rate rose from 3.7% to 5.4%, with an expected rate of about 6.6% by early Fall 2024.The fraction of workers at businesses that u…

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• The impact of AI on the workforce: Tasks versus jobs?

  Economics Letters · 2024-09-13 · 20 citations

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Recent grants

• Plant-Level Prices, Productivity Measurement and Industry Dynamics

  NSF · $358k · 2006–2013

• Economic Mobility: The Impact of Individual, Parent and Spatial Factors Using National Survey and Administrative Data

  NSF · $326k · 2017–2021

Frequent coauthors

• Steven J. Davis

  Hoover Institution

  410 shared

• Ron S. Jarmin

  United States Census Bureau

  204 shared

• Fredrik Andersson

  Statistics Sweden

  178 shared

• Javier Miranda

  173 shared

• Julia Lane

  RTI International

  130 shared

• Lucia Foster

  130 shared

• Cheryl Grim

  United States Census Bureau

  101 shared

• Mark Kutzbach

  88 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  Johns Hopkins University

  1981

Awards & honors

• Julius Shiskin Award for economic statistics (2013)
• Roger Herriott Award for innovation in federal statistics (2…
• Global Entrepreneurship Research Award (2020)

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