The New Firm Employment Puzzle
August 18, 2011 at 14:26 PM EDT
Last week, John Bussey of the Wall Street Journal identified some discouraging statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics “Business Employment Dynamics” (BED) program concerning the number of new establishments (a specific physical location like a store) and the number of jobs from new establishments. These data are replicated in the following chart, which [...]