Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses: Integrating the Employer and Nonemployer Universes

Abstract

Foster, and participants at the NBER/CRIW conference on Producer Dynamics in April 2005 and at an AEA/SBA session in January 2005. We also would like to thank Paul Hanczaryk for helping us understand the Census Bureau's nonemployer data. This work has undergone a more limited review than official Census Bureau publications. The views, findings, and opinions expressed in this work are those of the authors and not the U.S. Census Bureau. All results have been reviewed to ensure confidentiality.

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