Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205551 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
New Zealand Treasury Working Paper No. 04/11
Publisher: 
New Zealand Government, The Treasury, Wellington
Abstract: 
Previous work has suggested that New Zealand's firm dynamics and business demographics show a high proportion of small firms, small average firm size, and high rates of firm and employment turnover by comparison with other OECD countries. This paper reports on new comparative analyses of New Zealand's firm dynamics and business demography that attempt to control for measurement differences, using data from Statistics New Zealand's Business Demographic Statistics database, the OECD firm-level project, and the OECD's analysis of the Eurostat database. The variables investigated include firm size, firm turnover (entry and exit) rates, employment turnover rates, firm survival rates, and firm growth. The findings suggest that once measurement differences are taken into account, overall New Zealand's firm dynamics and demographics are broadly similar to many other OECD countries. Potential policy implications of these findings are discussed.
Subjects: 
Firm Size
Firm Dynamics
Firm Growth
Entry and Exit
JEL: 
L11
D21
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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