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Where Has All The Skewness Gone? The Decline In High-Growth (Young) Firms In The U.S
Decker, Ryan A. - 2015
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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Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young
Haltiwanger, John C. - 2010
issues at the core of this ongoing debate. We find that the relationship between firm size and employment growth is sensitive …
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Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses : Integrating the Employer and Nonemployer Universes
Davis, Steven J. - 2007
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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The Analytics of Investment, q, and Cash Flow
Abel, Andrew B. - 2015
In this paper I analyze the relationships among investment, q, and cash flow in a tractable stochastic model in which marginal q and average q are identically equal. After analyzing the impact of changes in the distribution of the marginal operating profit of capital, I extend the model to...
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Wage Inequality and Firm Growth
Mueller, Holger M. - 2015
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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Exporter Dynamics, Firm Size and Growth, and Partial Year Effects
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2014
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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The Slow Growth of New Plants : Learning about Demand?
Foster, Lucia - 2012
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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The Firm as a Dedicated Hierarchy : A Theory of the Origin and Growth of Firms
Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2000
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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The Relationship Between Firm Size and Firm Growth in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 1986
employment in any given year is permanent in the sense that there is no …the behavior of employment over time and find that most of the change in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477107
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Firm and Worker Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market
Bilal, Adrien G. - 2019
-worker firms choose whether to shrink or expand their employment in response to shocks to their decreasing returns to scale …
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