Do small businesses create more jobs? New evidence for the united states from the national establishment time series

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-29

  Neumark, David ^a,b   Wall, Brandon ^c   Zhang, Junfu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79957456376     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00060     Document Type: Article

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