TY  - JOUR
AU  - Leonard,Jonathan S.
TI  - On the Size Distribution of Employment and Establishments
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 1951
PY  - 1986
Y2  - June 1986
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1951
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1951.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jonathan S.. Leonard
Graduate School of Business
350 Barrows Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720
Tel: 415/642-7048
E-Mail: leonard@haas.berkeley.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1986-07-01
AB  - Recent arguments that employment growth occurs disproportionately 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. The net growth usually observed in aggregate studies hides the gross flows; 13 percent of the jobs in existence in 1974 had disappeared by 1980, while 18 percent of the 1980 jobs had not existed six years previously. The variation observed here in labor demand over time within individual establishments may help to explain unemployment.
ER  -