This paper employs an original dataset for 146 US metropolitan areas to test some propositions that characterize two different models of organizing firms and industries: the managerial firm, epitomized by the work of Alfred Chandler, and the entrepreneurial system, recently highlighted by many...

Using an exogenous variation in entry barriers, we develop and test a theory of wage inequality due to higher levels of startup entry. Researchers have argued that startups generate greater inequality in the labor market because new ventures lead to a higher within- and between-firm dispersion...