IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/oec/ecoaaa/348-en.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Comparative Analysis of Firm Demographics and Survival: Micro-Level Evidence for the OECD Countries

Author

Listed:
  • Eric Bartelsman
  • Stefano Scarpetta
  • Fabiano Schivardi

Abstract

This paper presents evidence on firm demographics and firm survival for a group of ten OECD countries. For each country a dataset of sectoral indicators of firm dynamics has been created using information from business registers. The patterns of firm entry, exit, survival and employment growth are described and analysed across countries, sectors, and over time. We find that both sectoral and country effects are important in determining firms demographics. We also find that entry and exit rates are fairly similar across countries, while post entry performance differ markedly between Europe and the US, a potential indication of the importance of barriers to firm growth as opposed to barriers to entry. Further, the paper provides a discussion of how these data may be used to gain a better understanding of the process through which economic policy and institutions may affect aggregate patterns of employment, output, and productivity growth ... Analyse comparative de la démographie et de la survie des entreprises : Evidence micro-économique pour les pays de l'OCDE Ce papier propose une analyse des données démographiques et de survie d’entreprises d’un groupe de dix pays de l’OCDE. Pour chaque pays, une base de données d’indicateurs sectoriels sur la dynamique des entreprises a été crée, en utilisant des informations provenant de registres d'entreprises. L’évolution de l’entrée, de la sortie, de la survie des entreprises et de la croissance de l’emploi est décrite et analysée selon les pays, les secteurs et le temps. Il ressort où à la fois les effets sectoriels et les effets pays jouent un rôle important dans la démographie des firmes. Nous trouvons également que les taux d’entrée et de sortie sont assez similaires selon les pays, bien que la performance après entrée diffère sensiblement entre l‘Europe et les États-Unis, suggérant potentiellement l’importance des barrières à l’expansion des entreprises plutôt que des barrières à l’entrée. De plus, cet article fournit une discussion sur la façon dont ces données pourraient être utilisées pour ...

Suggested Citation

  • Eric Bartelsman & Stefano Scarpetta & Fabiano Schivardi, 2003. "Comparative Analysis of Firm Demographics and Survival: Micro-Level Evidence for the OECD Countries," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 348, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:348-en
    DOI: 10.1787/010021066480
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1787/010021066480
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1787/010021066480?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    entry; entrée; exit; firm size; micro data; micro-données; sortie; survie; survival; taille des firmes;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • G33 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Bankruptcy; Liquidation
    • L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
    • M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:348-en. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/edoecfr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.