Census

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• Business creation and employment
  17 May 2011, by Bernard Zimmern

  In the late 70s, an MIT researcher shook the whole world of economists by showing that large firms, those that make the media buzz, those who made the Fortune Magazine cover page, does not create jobs but lose them and that employment is created primarily by small companies and even the very small.
  When David Birch invented the new discipline of business demography, he was not arguing that large companies do not create jobs but as a category, they destroy more jobs than they create. (...)

• France : Twice less businesses, three times less employment created than in Germany
  26 May 2011, by Rose Blackburry

  Is this the best kept statistical secret in France? These figures are not found on Eurostat where newly created businesses and jobs appear similar for France and Germany.
  On the contrary, French official statements celebrate the success of start-ups creation without taking into consideration that almost all companies being created are without employee, so that we do not know whether these companies are empty shells.
  To avoid this, several international statistics agencies, including (...)

• «The importance of startups in job creation and job destruction»
  26 May 2011, by Rose Blackburry

  Job creation and destruction in the US have been studied by Haltiwanger et al using Census Bureau longitudinal data and show a rate of job creation that is around 18% of existing jobs with job destructions around 16%, leaving a net creation of around 2%.
  Using time series from 1977, they were able to show that startups created «3 million jobs per year during 1992–2005, four times higher than any other yearly firm age group. For comparison, there are an average of 800,000 jobs created at (...)