On the Size Distribution of Employment and Establishments

Jonathan Leonard ()

Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series from Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley

Abstract: Recent arguments that employment growth occurs is proportionately at small establishments are fundamentally misleading because they confuse regression to the mean with structural shifts in the size distribution of establishments and with an aging effect within cohorts.

Keywords: employment growth; structural shifts; distribution; establishments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987-04-01
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Working Paper: On the Size Distribution of Employment and Establishments (1987)
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