The start-up gap and jobs

Shyngys Karimov () and Jozef Konings
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Shyngys Karimov: University of Leuven (KU Leuven)

Small Business Economics, 2021, vol. 57, issue 4, No 23, 2067-2084

Abstract: Abstract The present paper uses quarterly data from the social security registry covering the full population of Belgian firms to analyze how the secular decline in the firm entry rate affects aggregate employment. To this end, we disentangle the entry margin into two channels: the overall employment of new firms (the start-up employment) and the share of start-up employment by sector (the sectoral composition of start-ups). We find that the decline in start-up employment slowed down the growth rate of aggregate employment by 26% over the 2009Q2–2017Q1 period by shifting the age distribution of firms toward older firms. The sectoral composition of start-ups accelerated the decline in the manufacturing sector and prevented the distribution sector from a potential decline, while leaving the aggregate employment unchanged.

Keywords: Startup; New firm growth; Firm growth; Employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 E24 L26 M13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s11187-020-00395-z

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