Start-ups and other entrepreneurial ventures make a significant contribution to the US economy, particularly in the tech sector, where they comprise some of the largest and most influential companies. Yet for every high-profile, high-growth company like Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google,...

Newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS), allow unprecedented tracking of business dynamics for U.S. firms and establishments. This is the fourth in a series of briefings to highlight some key features of the data. What is the role of young...

Private equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition,...

This paper describes recent efforts at CES to create a new longitudinal research dataset: the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD). The LBD is a major improvement over existing longitudinal establishment datasets. Unlike the LRD, which covers only manufacturing, the LBD covers nearly all the...

In order to increase the reliability of economicresearch, the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Census Bureau has createdthe Longitudinal Business Database (LBD).The purpose of the LBD is toallow researchers to measure more accurately firm entry and exit, total jobflow, and variations in...

Private equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition,...