Mann, Catherine L. - Rosenberg Institute of Global Finance, Department of … - 2011
Start-up firms are a key feature of the U.S. econoomy. Annually, start-ups account for about 20 percent of all companies. On average, they create 3 million jobs per year, somewhat more than 5 percent of total job creation. But, by 2009, in the depths of the Great Recession, the rate of job...