John Haltiwanger

John Haltiwanger

John C. Haltiwanger, Professor, received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University in 1981. After serving on the faculty of UCLA and Johns Hopkins, he joined the faculty at Maryland in 1987. He is a Senior Research Fellow with the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics Program at the Bureau of the Census, a Research Associate of the Center for Economic Studies at the Bureau of the Census and of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His recent research has exploited the newly created longitudinal establishment data bases and the longitudinal matched employer-employee data bases that are available at the Bureau of the Census. This research centers on the process of reallocation, retooling and restructuring in the U.S. economy and its connection to the business cycle.

Selected Publications:

  • "Plant-Level Adjustment and Aggregate Investment Dynamics" (with R. Caballero and E. Engel), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1995.
  • Job Creation and Destruction (with S. Davis and S. Schuh), MIT Press, 1996.
  • "Aggregate Employment Dynamics: Building from Microeconomic Evidence" (with R. Caballero and E. Engel), American Economic Review, 1997.
  • "Driving Forces and Employment Fluctuations" (with S. Davis), American Economic Review, 1999.
  • "Machine Replacement and the Business Cycle: Lumps and Bumps" (with R. Cooper and L. Power), American Economic Review, 1999.
  • "Labor Productivity: Structural Changes and Cyclical Dynamics", Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001.
  • "Wages and Productivity Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing: The Role of Computer Investment," (with Tim Dunne, Lucia Foster and Ken Troske), Journal of Labor Economics, 2004.
  • "Integrated Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data for the United States," (with John Abowd and Julia Lane), American Economic Review, 2004.