.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on … constraints impede small business growth prior to loan receipt. We also investigate the variation in estimated employment effects … firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history, and with instrumental variables capturing ease of access to SBA …

.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on … constraints impede small business growth prior to loan receipt. We also investigate the variation in estimated employment effects … firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history, and with instrumental variables capturing ease of access to SBA …

through 2001. We find strong evidence that access to external finance (loans) increases the growth of both employment and …, there has been little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques … sales. Taxes appear to constrain growth. There is some evidence that entrepreneurial skills increase growth, but only weak …

through 2001. We find strong evidence that access to external finance (loans) increases the growth of both employment and …, there has been little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques … sales. Taxes appear to constrain growth. There is some evidence that entrepreneurial skills increase growth, but only weak …

that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little … entering with one. We link administrative and survey data to study the role of founder characteristics in high growth, defined … African-Americans, however, disappears by age 7. Founder age is positively associated with high growth at entry, but the …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … negative effect in Russia, and they provide some evidence of positive foreign effects on both wages and employment in all four … countries. The negligible employment impact of domestic privatization results from effects on efficiency and scale that are …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …