Measuring Job Creation, Growth, and Survival among the Universe of Start-ups in the United States Using a Combined Start-up Panel Data Set. (October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fairlie, Robert W.; Miranda, Javier; Zolas, Nikolas
• Is Part Of: Industrial and labor relations review. Volume 72:Number 5(2019)
• Page Start: 1262
• Page End: 1277
• Publication Date: 2019-10
• Subjects: entrepreneurship -- start-ups -- administrative panel data -- job creation -- survival; Industrial relations -- Periodicals; 331.05
• DOI: 10.1177/0019793919862764
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0019-7939

Abstract

The field of entrepreneurship is growing rapidly and expanding into new areas. This article presents a new compilation of administrative panel data on the universe of business start-ups in the United States, which will be useful for future research in entrepreneurship. To create the US start-up panel data set, the authors link the universe of non-employer firms to the universe of employer firms in the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD). Start-up cohorts of more than five million new businesses per year, which create roughly three million jobs, can be tracked over time. To illustrate the potential of the new start-up panel data set for future research, the authors provide descriptive statistics for a few examples of research topics using a representative start-up cohort.