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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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Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2012, we apply detailed matching and regression methods to estimate the variation in SBA loan effects on job creation and firm survival across firm...
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deleveraging is associated with a reduction in firm revenue and employment growth. Exploiting sectoral variation, we find that the …
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It is well known that new businesses are typically much smaller than their established industry competitors, and that this size gap closes slowly. We show that even in commodity-like product markets, these patterns do not reflect productivity gaps, but rather differences in demand-side...
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Two otherwise identical firms that enter the same market in different months, one in January and one in December, will report dramatically different annual sales for the first calendar year of operations. This partial year effect in annual data leads to downward biased observations of the level...
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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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part of what may be perceived as a global trend toward more wage inequality may be driven by an increase in employment by …
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-worker firms choose whether to shrink or expand their employment in response to shocks to their decreasing returns to scale …
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employment over time and find that most of the change inemployment in any given year is permanent in the sense that there is …
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employment growth rate distribution grew about 31 percent faster than the median firm. Moreover, the 90-50 differential was 16 … percent larger than the 50-10 differential reflecting the positive skewness of the employment growth rate distribution. We … show that the shape of the firm employment growth distribution changes substantially in the post-2000 period. By 2007, the …
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