“The National Establishment Time-Series (NETS) database provides longitudinal data on various dynamics of the U.S. economy that include establishment job creation and destruction, sales growth performance, survivability of business startups, mobility patterns, changes in primary markets, corporate affiliations that highlight M&A, and historical D&B credit and payment ratings.”
Access to NETS
Access to this database requires a paid subscription. NETS data has been used in the following entrepreneurship research:
- Neumark, David & Wall, Brandon & Zhang, Junfu, 2008. “Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series,” IZA Discussion Papers 3888, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- Neumark, D., Zhang, J., & Wall, B. (2006). Where the Jobs Are: Academy of Management Perspectives, 20(4), 79–94. https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2006.23270308
- Amezcua, A. S., Grimes, M. G., Bradley, S. W., & Wiklund, J. (2013). Organizational Sponsorship and Founding Environments: A Contingency View on the Survival of Business-Incubated Firms, 1994–2007. Academy of Management Journal, 56(6), 1628–1654. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2011.0652
- Amezcua, A., Ratinho, T., Jayamohan, P., & Plummer, L. A. (2016). “Location, Competition, And Organizational Sponsorship.” Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016(1), 17308. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2016.299
- Burton, M. D., Fairlie, R. W., & Siegel, D. (2019). Introduction to a Special Issue on Entrepreneurship and Employment: Connecting Labor Market Institutions, Corporate Demography, and Human Resource Management Practices. ILR Review, 72(5), 1050–1064. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793919866409
- Crane, L. D., & Decker, R. A. (2019). Business Dynamics in the National Establishment Time Series (NETS). Finance and Economics Discussion Series, 2019(034). https://doi.org/10.17016/feds.2019.034