The start-up gap and jobs

Karimov, Shyngys ORCID: 0000-0001-8384-9146 and Konings, Jozef ORCID: 0000-0003-1280-4674 (2021) The start-up gap and jobs Small Business Economics, 57 (4). pp. 2067-2084. ISSN 0921-898X, 1573-0913

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Abstract

The present paper uses quarterly data from the social security registry covering the full population of Belgian firms to analyze how the secular decline in the firm entry rate affects aggregate employment. To this end, we disentangle the entry margin into two channels: the overall employment of new firms (the start-up employment) and the share of start-up employment by sector (the sectoral composition of start-ups). We find that the decline in start-up employment slowed down the growth rate of aggregate employment by 26% over the 2009Q2–2017Q1 period by shifting the age distribution of firms toward older firms. The sectoral composition of start-ups accelerated the decline in the manufacturing sector and prevented the distribution sector from a potential decline, while leaving the aggregate employment unchanged.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, 3507 Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour, 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	07 Sep 2020 07:56
Last Modified:	31 Jan 2026 14:47
DOI:	10.1007/s11187-020-00395-z
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3100235
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