The Promise and Potential of Linked Employer-Employee Data for Entrepreneurship Research

We thank Rajshree Agarwal, Hubert Janicki, Andreas Mazat, Kristin McCue, Shawn Klimek, and participants in the NBER-CRIW Conference on Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses and the IZA/Kauffman Foundation Workshop on Entrepreneurship Research for very helpful comments. We also thank Douglas Walton and Alexandria Zhang for assistance in preparing some of the tabulations. Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau. While most of the figures and tables in this paper are calculated from public use data, some tables use confidential Census Bureau microdata, all such tables and figures have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.