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IZA DP No. 4052
Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data:An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-RepresentativeDatasets
Robert W. FairlieAlicia M. Robb
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Forschungsinstitutzur Zukunft der ArbeitInstitute for the Studyof Labor
March 2009
 
 Entrepreneurship, Self-Employmentand Business Data:An Introduction to Several Large,Nationally-Representative Datasets
Robert W. Fairlie
University of California, Santa Cruz and IZA
Alicia M. Robb
University of California, Santa Cruz 
Discussion Paper No. 4052March 2009
 
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IZA Discussion Paper No. 4052March 2009
ABSTRACT
Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data:An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-Representative Datasets
 
Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the ownerand the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sourcesof data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More informationincluding estimates of recent trends in business ownership and performance (e.g. survivalrates, sales, employment, payroll, profits and industry) from these datasets is contained inFairlie and Robb (2008).JEL Classification: L26, Y1Keywords: entrepreneurship, self-employment, business owners, small businesses, dataCorresponding author:Robert W. FairlieDepartment of EconomicsUniversity of CaliforniaEngineering 2 BuildingSanta Cruz, CA 95064USAE-mail:rfairlie@ucsc.edu 
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