About

Henry R. Hyatt is a Senior Economist in the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Census Bureau, which he joined in 2009.  He received a B.A. in economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.  He is a Research Fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), where he serves in his personal capacity.

Views and opinions expressed on this site are those of the author and not those of the U.S. Census Bureau or any other of the preceding.

Selected Papers

Haltiwanger, John, Henry Hyatt, and James Spletzer. 2022. “Industries, Mega Firms, and Increasing Inequality.” Unpublished draft, University of Maryland.

Haltiwanger, John, Henry Hyatt, Erika McEntarfer, and Matthew Staiger. 2022. “Cyclical Worker Flows: Cleansing vs. Sullying.” Unpublished draft, University of Maryland.

Haltiwanger, John, Henry Hyatt, and James Spletzer. 2022. “Sources of Increasing Earnings Inequality: Reconciling Survey and Administrative Data.” Unpublished draft, University of Maryland.

Cao, Dan, Henry Hyatt, Toshihiko Mukoyama, and Erick Sager. 2022. “Firm Growth through New Establishments.” Unpublished draft, Georgetown University.

Crane, Leland, Henry Hyatt, and Seth Murray. 2022. “Cyclical Labor Market Sorting.” Forthcoming, Journal of Econometrics.

Hahn, Joyce, Henry Hyatt, and Hubert Janicki. 2021. “Job Ladders and Growth in Earnings, Hours, and Wages.” European Economic Review 133: 103654.

Henry Hyatt, Seth Murray, and Kristin Sandusky. 2021. “Business Income Dynamics and Labor Market Fluidity.” IZA Journal of Labor Economics 10(1).

Dinlersoz, Emin, Henry Hyatt, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Veronika Penciakova. 2019. “Leverage over the Firm Life-Cycle, Firm Growth, and Aggregate Fluctuations.” Unpublished draft, University of Maryland.

Dinlersoz, Emin, Henry Hyatt, and Hubert Janicki. 2019. “Who Works for Whom? Worker Sorting in a Model of Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Labor Markets.” Review of Economic Dynamics 34(1): 244-266.

Hyatt, Henry, Erika McEntarfer, Ken Ueda, and Alexandria Zhang. 2018. “Interstate Migration and Employer-to-Employer Transitions: New Evidence From Administrative Records Data.” Demography 55(6): 2161-2180.

Haltiwanger, John, Henry Hyatt, and Erika McEntarfer. 2018. “Who Moves Up the Job Ladder?” Journal of Labor Economics 36(S1): S301-S336.

Haltiwanger, John C., Henry R. Hyatt, Lisa Kahn, and Erika McEntarfer. 2018. “Cyclical Job Ladders by Firm Size and Firm Wage.” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 10(2): 52-85.

Dinlersoz, Emin, Jeremy Greenwood, and Henry Hyatt. 2017. “What Businesses Attract Unions? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 70(3): 733-766.

Hyatt, Henry, and James Spletzer. 2017. “The Recent Decline of Single Quarter Jobs.” Labour Economics 46(1): 166-176.

Hyatt, Henry, and James Spletzer. 2016. “The Shifting Job Tenure Distribution.” Labour Economics 41(1): 363-377.

Hyatt, Henry R., and James R. Spletzer. 2013. “The Recent Decline in Employment Dynamics.” IZA Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 2: Iss. 3: 1-21.