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Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young

Haltiwanger, John C. - 2010

The view that small businesses create the most jobs remains appealing to policymakers and small business advocates. Using data from the Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics and Longitudinal Business Database, we explore the many issues at the core of this ongoing debate. We find that the...

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Industrial Policy, Employer Size, and Economic Performance in Sweden

Davis, Steven J. - 1995

, the national pension system, employment security laws and centralized wage setting in Sweden reinforced the distortionary … neutral set of policies and institutions, Sweden's employment distribution is sharply tilted away from lower wage industries … establishments. Compared to other OECD economies, Sweden has the lowest rate of self employment, a dominant role for larger firms …

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The Firm as a Dedicated Hierarchy : A Theory of the Origin and Growth of Firms

Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2000

A fundamental problem entrepreneurs face in the formative stages of their businesses is how to provide incentives for employees to protect, rather than steal, the source of organizational rents. We study how the entrepreneur's response to this problem will determine the organization's internal...

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Size and Growth of Japanese Plants in the United States

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 1999

Using a unique database on all Japanese manufacturing plants in the United States, we examine the relationship between plant size and growth for these foreign-owned plants. These plants average sizes are three times larger than comparable U.S. plants and experienced 30 percent growth from 1987...

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The Relationship Between Firm Size and Firm Growth in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 1986

Using time series methods, suitably modified for panel data (where …manufacturing sector in the recent past. I use panel data on the …

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Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses : Integrating the Employer and Nonemployer Universes

Davis, Steven J. - 2007

We develop a preliminary version of an Integrated Longitudinal Business Database (ILBD) that combines administrative records and survey data for all employer and nonemployer business units in the United States. Unlike other large-scale business databases, the ILBD tracks business transitions...

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Firm Size Dynamics in the Aggregate Economy

Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2005

Why do firm growth and exit rates decline with size? What determines the size distribution of firms? This paper presents a theory of firm dynamics that simultaneously rationalizes the basic facts on firm growth, exit, and size distributions. The theory emphasizes the accumulation of industry...

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Financial Markets and Wages

Michelacci, Claudio - 2005

We study a labor market equilibrium model in which firms sign optimal long-term contracts with workers. Firms that are financially constrained offer an increasing wage profile: They pay lower wages today in exchange of higher wages once they become unconstrained and operate at a larger scale. In...

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Finance, Firm Size, and Growth

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

This paper examines whether financial development boosts the growth of small firms more than large firms and hence provides information on the mechanisms through which financial development fosters aggregate economic growth. We define an industry's technological firm size as the firm size...

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Capital Market Financing, Firm Growth, Firm Size Distribution

Didier, Tatiana - 2014

Which firms issue equity and debt in domestic and international markets and what happens to their assets, sales, and number of employees? To answer these questions, we assemble a new dataset on firm-level capital raising activity during 1991-2011, which we match with firm attributes for 45,527...

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