TY  - JOUR
AU  - Goetz, Christopher
AU  - Hyatt, Henry
AU  - McEntarfer, Erika
AU  - Sandusky, Kristin
TI  - The Promise and Potential of Linked Employer-Employee Data for Entrepreneurship Research
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 21639
PY  - 2015
Y2  - October 2015
DO  - 10.3386/w21639
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w21639
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w21639.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Christopher Goetz
U.S. Census Bureau
4600 Silver Hill Rd.
Washington, DC 20233
E-Mail: christopher.f.goetz@census.gov

Henry R. Hyatt
Center for Economic Studies
U.S. Census Bureau
4600 Silver Hill Road
Washington, DC 20233 
E-Mail: henry.r.hyatt@census.gov

Erika McEntarfer
U.S. Census Bureau
Center for Economic Studies
4600 Silver Hill Road
ACSD HQ-5K179
Washington, DC 20233
Tel: (301) 763-8555
E-Mail: erika.mcentarfer@census.gov

Kristin Sandusky
Center for Economic Studies
U.S. Census Bureau
4600 Silver Hill Road
Washington, DC  20233
Tel: (301)763-5292
E-Mail: lee.k.sandusky@census.gov
M1  - published as Christopher Goetz, Henry Hyatt, Erika McEntarfer, Kristin Sandusky. "The Promise and Potential of Linked Employer-Employee Data for Entrepreneurship Research," in John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar, editors, "Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges" University of Chicago Press (2017)

M3  - presented at "CRIW: Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses", December 16-17, 2014
AB  - In this paper, we highlight the potential for linked employer-employee data to be used in entrepreneurship research, describing new data on business start-ups, their founders and early employees, and providing examples of how they can be used in entrepreneurship research. Linked employer-employee data provides a unique perspective on new business creation by combining information on the business, workforce, and individual. By combining data on both workers and firms, linked data can investigate many questions that owner-level or firm-level data cannot easily answer alone - such as composition of the workforce at start-ups and their role in explaining business dynamics, the flow of workers across new and established firms, and the employment paths of the business owners themselves.
ER  -