Understanding Business Dynamics

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AN INTEGRATED DATA SYSTEM FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE The U.S. economy is highly dynamic: businesses ópen and close, workers switch jobs and start new enterprises, and innovative téchnoíogies redefine the workplace and efihance productivity. With globalization, markets have alsó become more interconnected. Measuring business activity in this rapídly evolving environment increasingly requífes tracking complex interactions among firms, establishments, employers, and employees.This report presents strategies for improving the accuracy, timeliness, coverage, and integration of data that are used in constructing aggregate economic statistics, as well as in microlevel analyses of topics ranging from job creation and destruction and firm entry and exit to innovation and productivity.This report offers recommendations that could be enacted by federal statistical agencies to modernize the measurement of business dynamics, particularly the production of information on small and young firms that can... Tovább

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AN INTEGRATED DATA SYSTEM FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE The U.S. economy is highly dynamic: businesses ópen and close, workers switch jobs and start new enterprises, and innovative téchnoíogies redefine the workplace and efihance productivity. With globalization, markets have alsó become more interconnected. Measuring business activity in this rapídly evolving environment increasingly requífes tracking complex interactions among firms, establishments, employers, and employees.This report presents strategies for improving the accuracy, timeliness, coverage, and integration of data that are used in constructing aggregate economic statistics, as well as in microlevel analyses of topics ranging from job creation and destruction and firm entry and exit to innovation and productivity.This report offers recommendations that could be enacted by federal statistical agencies to modernize the measurement of business dynamics, particularly the production of information on small and young firms that can have a disproportionately large impact in rapidly expanding economic sectors. It alsó outlines the need for effective coordination of existing survey and administrative data sources, which is essential to improving the depth and coverage of business data. Alsó of interest... Improving Business Statistics Through Interagency Data Sharing ISBN 0-309-10261-8, 156 pages, 6 x 9, paperback (2006) Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency,Third Edition ISBN 0-309-09599-9,94 pages, 6x9, paperback (2005) Expanding Access to Research Data: Reconciling Risks and Opportunities ISBN 0-309-10012-7, 132 pages, 6x9, paperback (2005) Vissza