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Our research group at MIT—The Program on Jobs, Entrepreneurs, and Markets—began to study the economy of the United States by breaking it down into the individual pieces from which it is built—the individual business establishments. We followed each one over a 20-year period, and then added them all back up. When we were finished, we had studied the histories of over 17 million individual business addresses that today employ approximately 95 percent of our private-sector work force.
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Birch, D.L. (1990). Sources of Job Growth—and Some Implications. In: Kasarda, J.D. (eds) Jobs, Earnings, and Employment Growth Policies in the United States. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2201-3_4
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