“…While these results come from the USA, similar evidence exists for many countries. An unexplained establishment size effect has been found for the UK (Main and Reilly 1993;Green et al 1996;Manning 2003), Canada (Morissette 1993;Reilly 1995), Germany (Schmidt and Zimmermann 1991;Gerlach and Schmidt 1995;Andrews et al 2012), Austria (Winter-Ebmer 2001Gruetter and Lalive 2009), France (Abowd et al 1999;Fakhfakh and Fitzroy 2006), Switzerland (Winter-Ebmer and Zweimuller 1999), Italy (Brunello and Colussi 1998;Scoppa 2014), Nordic countries (Albaek et al 1998;Pehkonen et al 2017), a cross-section of five European countries (Lallemand et al 2007), a cross-section of nine OECD countries (Gibson and Stillman 2009), 1 Latin American countries (Mizala and Romaguera 1998), and developing African countries (Strobl and Thornton 2004).…”