Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young

John C. Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, Javier Miranda

NBER Working Paper No. 16300
Issued in August 2010, Revised in November 2012

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We thank Philippe Aghion, Peter Huber, Harald Oberhofer, Michael Pfaffermayr, an anonymous referee, conference and seminar participants at the NBER 2009 Summer Institute Meeting of the Entrepreneurship Working Group, CAED 2009, World Bank 2009 Conference on Small Firms, NABE Economic Policy Conference 2010, OECD Conference on Entrepreneurship 2010, Queens University and the 2010 WEA meetings for helpful comments. We thank the Kauffman Foundation for financial support. Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau or the National Bureau of Economic Research. All results have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed.

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