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On The Size Distribution of Employment and Establishments

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By Jonathan S. Leonard on April 1, 1987 Firms and Organizations
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Working Paper #5-87 PDF

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.

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