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[IWS] BLS: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS: FIRST QUARTER 2006 [26 January 2007]

IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016
-------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS:  FIRST QUARTER 2006 [26 January 2007]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cewbd.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cewbd.pdf
[full-text, 17 pages]

From December 2005 to March 2006, the number of job gains from opening
and expanding private sector establishments was 7.6 million, and the number
of job losses from closing and contracting establishments was 6.8 million,
according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the
U.S. Department of Labor.  Gross job gains exceeded gross job losses in all
sectors, except manufacturing, information, and utilities.  (See table 3.)
Firms with 20 to 49 employees accounted for 18.9 percent of the net gains in
employment, representing the largest contribution to employment growth among
all firm size classes.  (See tables D and 4.)

   The Business Employment Dynamics (BED) data series include gross job
gains and gross job losses at the establishment level by major industry
sector, as well as, gross job gains and gross job losses at the firm level
by employer size class.

   The change in the number of jobs over time is the net result of in-
creases and decreases in employment that occur at all businesses in
the economy.  BED statistics track these changes in employment at pri-
vate business units from the third month of one quarter to the third
month of the next.  Gross job gains are the sum of increases in employ-
ment from expansions at existing units and the addition of new jobs at
opening units.  Gross job losses are the result of contractions in em-
ployment at existing units and the loss of jobs at closing units.  The
difference between the number of gross jobs gained and the number of
gross jobs lost is the net change in employment.  (See the Technical
Note for more information.)

AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES & CHARTS....

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