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Business Dynamics Statistics: Understanding the Role of Entrepreneurship and Job Creation

This research data set provides easily accessible and rich information to examine business demography, creative destruction/innovation, business cycle dynamics, and the role of cohorts in labor market dynamics. The dataset covers establishment births, deaths, and continuers, job creation and destruction, and excess job reallocation across firm age, size, state, and industrial sector. State analysis with extensions to county and NAICS are also available.

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Business Dynamics Statistics: Understanding the Role of Entrepreneurship and Job Creation

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  1. Business Dynamics StatisticsJAVIER MIRANDACenter for Economic Studies US Census BureauNJSDCJune 2, 2009

  2. Background • Business dynamics are a fundamental part of • Innovation • Productivity Growth • Job Creation • Measuring business dynamics in official statistics is relatively new, but critical to our understanding of the economy

  3. Remarks By Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke • …One leading explanation for the strong U.S. productivity growth is that labor markets in the United States tend to be more flexible and competitive, market characteristics that have allowed the United States to realize greater economic benefits from new technologies. For example, taking full advantage of new information and communication technologies may require extensive reorganization of work practices, the reassignment and retraining of workers, and ultimately some reallocation of labor among firms and industries… • August 31, 2006

  4. Background • Confidential Micro Datasets – RDC Network • Public Use Datasets a way to open access to wider set of users • Census-SUSB • BLS-BED • OECD-SBS • None of these incorporate business age in a systematic way. • Critical to understanding • Entrepreneurship • The role of young/small old/large producers in dynamic economic processes.

  5. The BDS • New Census public use files (support from Kauffman Foundation) • Coverage 1976-2005 • CBP Universe • Establishment level with firm characteristics • Focus on both business and employment dynamics • Comparison to CBP • Value added from links and longitudinal analysis • Unique Features • Long Time Series • Firm and Establishment Age • Interactions with Firm and Establishment Size

  6. The BDS • Statistics • Establishment Births, Deaths and Continuers • Job creation • From births and expansions • Job destruction • From deaths and contractions • Excess Job Reallocation • By categories • Firm Age • Firm Size • State • Industrial Sector • State*Sector*Age …

  7. The BDS • Other tables planned • County (most requested) • NAICS • Establishment Age …. • We want feedback as to what is useful to you • Survival? • Firm?

  8. The BDS Website

  9. The BDS: Multiple Databases

  10. The BDS: Economy Wide

  11. The BDS: State Statistics

  12. The BDS: Startups and Age

  13. The BDS: Entrepreneurial Activity Across States

  14. The BDS: Jobs Created from Business Startups in the U.S.

  15. The BDS: High Growth and Failure of Young Firms

  16. Summary • New research data set • Easily accessible • Rich source of information to examine • Business demography • Creative destruction/innovation • Business cycle dynamics • Role of cohorts, young/small vs large/old • Labor market dynamics

  17. Summary • State Analysis • Extensions to County and NAICS

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