The growth potential of startups over the business cycle

This paper shows that employment in cohorts of US firms is strongly influenced by aggregate conditions at the time of their entry. Employment fluctuations of startups are procyclical, they persist into later years, and cohort-level employment variations are largely driven by differences in firm size...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sedláček, P, Sterk, V
Format: Journal article
Published: American Economic Association 2017