... recruiting large enterprises with tax breaks, financial incentives, and other induce-ments. Instead, they are relying on building businesses from the groundup and supporting the growth of existing ... based on theirsize at the beginning of the period, which favors a finding of highergrowth among small firms, rather than at the end of the period. TableA1 decomposes job growth from the second ... growth from the second quarter of 2000 into jobclasses using beginning size of firm, mean size of firm over the period,and end size of firm. If the beginning size of the firm is used to classifyfirms,...