Survival and longevity in the business employment dynamics data

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 50-56

  Knaup, Amy E ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

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References (11)

1. See, for example, Timothy Dunne, Mark J. Roberts, and Larry Samuelson, "Patterns of firm entry and exit in U.S. manufacturing industries," RAND Journal of Economics, winter 1988, pp. 495-515;
2. John R. Baldwin and Paul K. Gorecki, "Firm Entry and Exit in the Canadian manufacturing sector, 1970-1982," Canadian Journal of Economics, May 1991, pp. 300-23;
3. Jose Mata and Pedro Portugal, "Life Duration of New Firms," Journal of Industrial Economics, September 1994, 227-45;
4. David Audretsch, "New-Firm Survival and the Technological Regime," Review of Economics and Statistics, August 1991, pp. 441-50;
5. and David B. Audretsch and Talat Mahmood, "New-Finn Survival: New Results Using a Hazard Function," Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1995, pp. 97-103. These studies have been concerned mainly with the behavior of firms even when the unit of collection is the establishment.
6. Business Births and Deaths: The Dynamics of Business Churning in Minnesota (Minnesota Department of Economic Security, Research and Statistics Office, May 1997).
7. For a discussion of the BED data series, see James R. Spletzer, R. Jason Faberman, Akbar Sadeghi, David M. Talan, and Richard L. Clayton, "Business Employment Dynamics: new data on gross job gains and losses," Monthly Labor Review, April 2004, 29-42.
8. Identical to death rates as used in this article.
9. Forty-eight percent of manufacturing establishments were still in existence 4 years after their birth; thus, 52 percent had exited the market.
10. Dunne, Roberts, and Samuelson, "Patterns Firm Entry and Exit."
11. Baldwin and Gorecki, "Firm Entry and Exit."