Firm Age, Investment Opportunities, and Job Creation
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Firm Age, Investment Opportunities, and Job Creation
Firm Age, Investment Opportunities, and Job Creation
Date Written: July 27, 2016
Abstract
New firms are an important source of job creation, but the underlying economic mechanisms for why this is so are not well understood. Using an identification strategy that links shocks to local income to job creation in the non-tradable sector, we ask whether job creation arises more through the new firm creation or through the expansion of existing firms. We find that new firms account for the bulk of net employment creation in response to local investment opportunities. There is also significant gross job creation and destruction by existing firms, suggesting that positive local shocks accelerate churn.
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