JOB CREATION AND JOB DESTRUCTION IN GREAT-BRITAIN IN THE 1980S

Using data from the Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys of 1980, 19 84, and 1990, the authors investigate processes of job creation and jo b destruction in Britain. They find that rates of employment growth,jo b creation, and job destruction were higher at the end of the 1980s th an at the beginning. Both job creation and job destruction were extrem ely concentrated: about 50% of each was accounted for by just 4% of co ntinuing establishments. Employment growth was apparently more variabl e in manufacturing plants than in private service sector workplaces. S ome variables negatively related to employment growth were unionizatio n, establishment size, establishment age, and location in the private manufacturing sector (versus private service sector).