利用42亿个人纳税记录揭示美国公司规模分布

Joseph A. E. Shaheen
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企业规模分布描述了任何经济体的重要经济属性和劳动属性。政府实体必须在数据收集、清理和分析方面花费大量资源,以便构建这个和其他描述大型经济体总体属性的重要分布。在美国,这个过程可能很麻烦,需要查询多个数据库并利用大量的计算资源。我表明,仅使用直接从美国国税局税收记录(微观数据)中提取的个人所得税记录(W2s)构建美国公司规模分布是合理的,并且新兴分布在统计上与美国人口普查局报告的分布相同。该方法代表了经济分析中人口规模研究(特别是企业和劳动力分析)的渐进进步。最后,本文作为对早期拟合企业规模分布工作的再验证。
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Emerging the U.S. Firm Size Distribution Using 4.2 Billion Individual Tax Records
The firm size distribution describes important economic and labor properties of any economy. Government entities must expend enormous resources in data collection, cleaning, and analysis in order to construct this and other important distributions describing the aggregate properties large economies. In the U.S., this process can be cumbersome and relies on querying multiple databases and utilizing significant computational resources. I show that construction of the U.S. firm size distribution is plausible using only individual income tax records (W2s) drawn directly from Internal Revenue Service tax records (micro data) and that the emergent distribution is statistically identical to what is reported by the United States Census Bureau. The methodology represents an incremental advance for population-scale studies in economic analysis—specifically firm and labor analysis. Finally, this paper acts as a re-validation of earlier work in fitting the firm size distribution.
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