This paper serves two related purposes. First, we conduct a preliminary descriptive analysis of the establishment birth and death rates by rural and urban counties. This analysis gives a surprising result: when measured by the ecological and labor force method, the rural versus urban differences...

The Office of Advocacy creates estimates of the number of employer and nonemployer businesses for recent years, since the newest available data have around a two-year lag. Advocacy estimates the number of nonemployers using growth rates from Internal Revenue Service’s sole proprietor count...

Using special tabulations from the U.S. Census Bureau, we use aggregate data to follow a cohort of firms over 10 years from their formation and the universe of existing firms to track their growth/decline in employment. We created a table to show the employment change categories for a cohort of...