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March 2012

The declining average size of establishments: evidence and explanations

Eleanor J. Choi, James R. Spletzer

Although the average size of establishments rose through the expansionary years of the 1990s, it has fallen during each year of the first decade of the 2000s; a primary explanation is that new establishments are starting and staying smaller.

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