This paper examines whether Canadian firms of different sizes (in terms of employment) grow at different rates year …-on-year. The data are from Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program and cover the 1999-to-2008 period. The … of employees in both previous and current years.The analysis shows that employment growth rates across the Canadian …

issues at the core of this ongoing debate. We find that the relationship between firm size and employment growth is sensitive …

novel and robust empirical regularity, that highly concentrated local labor markets experienced larger employment declines … aggregate consequence of idiosyncratic firm shocks. My model predicts a larger decline in expected employment when the market … rule out alternative explanations, and show that large employment losses in concentrated labor markets are not driven by …