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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21776
来源ID	Working Paper 21776
	Where Has All The Skewness Gone? The Decline In High-Growth (Young) Firms In The U.S.
	Ryan A. Decker; John Haltiwanger; Ron S. Jarmin; Javier Miranda
发表日期	2015-12-07
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	The pace of business dynamism and entrepreneurship in the U.S. has declined over recent decades. We show that the character of that decline changed around 2000. Since 2000 the decline in dynamism and entrepreneurship has been accompanied by a decline in high-growth young firms. Prior research has shown that the sustained contribution of business startups to job creation stems from a relatively small fraction of high-growth young firms. The presence of these high-growth young firms contributes to a highly (positively) skewed firm growth rate distribution. In 1999, a firm at the 90th percentile of the employment growth rate distribution grew about 31 percent faster than the median firm. Moreover, the 90-50 differential was 16 percent larger than the 50-10 differential reflecting the positive skewness of the employment growth rate distribution. We show that the shape of the firm employment growth distribution changes substantially in the post-2000 period. By 2007, the 90-50 differential was only 4 percent larger than the 50-10, and it continued to exhibit a trend decline through 2011. The overall decline reflects a sharp drop in the 90th percentile of the growth rate distribution accounted for by the declining share of young firms and the declining propensity for young firms to be high-growth firms.
主题	Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Industrial Organization ; Firm Behavior
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21776
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579450
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ryan A. Decker,John Haltiwanger,Ron S. Jarmin,et al. Where Has All The Skewness Gone? The Decline In High-Growth (Young) Firms In The U.S.. 2015.