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Value without Employment
Barkai, Simcha; Panageas, Stauros - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Young firms' contribution to aggregate employment has been underwhelming. However, a similar trend is not apparent in …
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Credit Supply Shocks and Firm Dynamics : Evidence from Brazil
Bazzi, Samuel; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Oliveira, Raquel F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
short-run employment growth in the formal sector. However, credit expansions increase average capability among entering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372477
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Volatility and Dispersion in Business Growth Rates : Publicly Traded versus Privately Held Firms
Davis, Steven J. - 2006
, we exploit the recently developed Longitudinal Business Database (LBD), which contains annual observations on employment …, the employment-weighted mean volatility of firm growth rates has declined by more than 40% since 1982. This result stands … volatility among privately held firms. This pattern holds in every major industry group. Employment shifts toward older …
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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK
Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322738
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Founding Teams and Startup Performance
Choi, Joonkyu; Goldschlag, Nathan; Haltiwanger, John C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We explore the role of founding teams in accounting for the post-entry dynamics of startups. While the entrepreneurship literature has largely focused on business founders, we broaden this view by considering founding teams as both the founders and early joiners. We investigate the idea that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482633
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Redesigning the Longitudinal Business Database
Chow, Melissa C.; Fort, Teresa C.; Goetz, Christopher F.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
formerly provided by the Statistics of U.S. Businesses program, which produced similar year-to-year measures of employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533388
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What is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent “Lottery”
Farre-Mensa, Joan - 2017
, 55% higher employment growth and 80% higher sales growth five years later. Patent winners also pursue more, and higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455413
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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 US States, 1988-2014
Guzman, Jorge - 2016
While official measures of business dynamism have seen a long-term decline, early-stage venture financing of new companies has reached levels not observed since the late 1990s, resulting in a sharp debate about the state of American entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456579
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Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs
Blanchflower, David G. - 2008
n this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is … Community Survey (ACS). In contrast to the official definition of self-employment which simply counts the numbers of … evidence on trends in self-employment for the US by race, ethnicity and gender. Evidence is also presented for construction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464674
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Education, Participation, and the Revival of U.S. Economic Growth
Jorgenson, Dale W. - 2016
investment boom of 1995-2000 drew many younger and less-educated workers into employment. Employment rates for these workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456224