Henry R. Hyatt is a Principal 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.
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Selected Papers
Goetz, Christopher, Henry Hyatt, Zachary Kroff, Kristin Sandusky, and Martha Stinson. 2025. “Business Owners and the Self-Employed: Thirty-Three Million (and Counting!)” Unpublished draft, U.S. Census Bureau.
Haltiwanger, John, Henry Hyatt, Erika McEntarfer, and Matthew Staiger. 2025. “Cyclical Worker Flows: Cleansing vs. Sullying.” Review of Economic Dynamics 55: 101252.
Haltiwanger, John, Henry Hyatt, and James Spletzer. 2024. “Rising Top, Falling Bottom: Industries and Rising Wage Inequality.” American Economic Review 114(10): 3250-3283.
Haltiwanger, John, Henry Hyatt, and James Spletzer. 2023. “Increasing Earnings Inequality: Reconciling Evidence from Survey and Administrative Data.” Journal of Labor Economics 41(S1): S61-S93.
Crane, Leland, Henry Hyatt, and Seth Murray. 2023. “Cyclical Labor Market Sorting.” Journal of Econometrics 233(2): 524-543.
Cao, Dan, Henry Hyatt, Toshihiko Mukoyama, and Erick Sager. 2022. “Firm Growth through New Establishments.” Unpublished draft, Georgetown University.
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 Unpublished draft, University of Maryland.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.