Cyclical Job Ladders by Firm Size and Firm Wage

This paper is an integration of two working papers "Employment Cyclicality and Firm Quality" by Kahn and McEntarfer (NBER Working Paper #20698, 2014) and "Cyclical Reallocation of Workers Across Employers by Firm Size and Firm Wage" (NBER Working Paper #21235, 2015) by Haltiwanger, Hyatt and McEntarfer. We cite both of these papers extensively (referring to them as KM (2014) and HHM (2015)) for sensitivity and robustness analysis that is not included in this integrated paper. Collectively, we thank participants at many seminars and workshops for many helpful comments and suggestions where these working papers have been presented. We also thank Alex Mas, Richard Rogerson, Chris Stanton, and participants at the Labor and Employment Relations Association sessions at the Allied Social Science Associations 2017 Meeting for help with the merged paper. Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau. All results have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.