Measuring the dynamics of young and small businesses
Subtitle: integrating the employer and nonemployer universes
By: Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, C. J. Krizan, Javier Miranda, Alfred Nucci, Kristin Sandusky
Contributors: Haltiwanger, John C.; Jarmin, Ronald S., 1964-; Krizan, C. J. (Cornell John); National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13226; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13226.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "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 from nonemployer to employer status.  This feature of the ILBD opens a new frontier for the study of business formation, early lifecycle dynamics and the precursors to job creation in the U.S.  economy.  There are 5.4 million nonfarm business firms with employees as of 2000 and another 15.5 million with no employees.  Our analysis focuses on 40 industries that account for nearly half of nonemployers and 36 percent of nonemployer revenues.  Within these industries, nonemployers account for 14 percent of business revenues.  About 220,000 of the seven million nonemployers in our selected industries hire workers and migrate to the employer universe over a three-year horizon.  These Migrants account for 20 percent of revenue among young employers (three years or less since first hire).  Compared to other nonemployers, the revenue of Migrants grows very rapidly in the year prior to and the year of transition to employer status"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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