Do small businesses create more jobs?
Subtitle: new evidence from the national establishment time series
By: David Neumark, Brandon Wall, Junfu Zhang.
Contributors: Wall, Brandon.; Zhang, Junfu, 1970-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13818
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "We use a new database, the National Establishment Time Series (NETS), to revisit the debate about the role of small businesses in job creation.  Birch (e.g., 1987) argued that small firms are the most important source of job creation in the U.S.  economy, but Davis et al.  (1996a) argued that this conclusion was flawed, and based on improved methods and using data for the manufacturing sector they concluded that there was no relationship between establishment size and net job creation.  Using the NETS data, we examine evidence for the overall economy, as well as for different sectors.  The results indicate that small establishments and small firms create more jobs, on net, although the difference is much smaller than what is suggested by Birch's methods.  However, the negative relationship between establishment size and job creation is much less clear for the manufacturing sector, which may explain some of the earlier findings contradicting Birch's conclusions"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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