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Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young
Haltiwanger, John C. - 2010
The view that small businesses create the most jobs remains appealing to policymakers and small business advocates. Using data from the Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics and Longitudinal Business Database, we explore the many issues at the core of this ongoing debate. We find that the...
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Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance
Cai, Jing - 2016
We organized business associations for the owner-managers of randomly selected young Chinese firms to study the effect of business networks on firm performance. We randomized 2,800 firms into small groups whose managers held monthly meetings for one year, and into a "no- meetings" control group....
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Job Creation, Small vs. Large vs. Young, and the SBA
Brown, J. David - 2015
Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2012, we apply detailed matching and regression methods to estimate the variation in SBA loan effects on job creation and firm survival across firm...
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The Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm Growth
Fischer, Greg - 2015
We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...
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In with the Big, Out with the Small : Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India
Martin, Leslie A. - 2014
An ongoing debate in employment policy is whether promoting small and medium enterprises creates more employment. Do small enterprises generate more employment growth than larger firms? We use the elimination of small-scale industry (SSI) promotion in India to address this question. For 60...
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What Predicts the Growth of Small Firms?$bEvidence from Tanzanian Commercial Loan Data
Ellis, Mia; Kinnan, Cynthia; McMillan, Margaret Stokes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Not all firms have equal capacity to absorb productive credit. Identifying those with higher potential may have large consequences for productivity. We collect detailed survey data on small- and medium-sized Tanzanian firms who borrow from a large commercial bank, which in turn raises funds via...
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Skill-specific rather then General Education : A Reason for US-Europe Growth Differences?
Krueger, Dirk - 2003
In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain … between their growth rates will increase with the growth rate of available technology. By characterizing the optimal Ramsey … available technology. Our theory suggests that European education policies that favored specialized, vocational education might …
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COVID-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020
, Education, and Other Services are among the most affected sectors. The jobs at risk due to COVID-19 related SME business …
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Firm Value, Risk, and Growth Opportunities
Shin, Hyun-Han - 2000
We show that Tobin's q, as proxied by the ratio of the firm's market value to its book value, increases with the firm's systematic equity risk and falls with the firm's unsystematic equity risk. Further, an increase in the firm's total equity risk is associated with a fall in q. The negative...
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The Firm as a Dedicated Hierarchy : A Theory of the Origin and Growth of Firms
Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2000
A fundamental problem entrepreneurs face in the formative stages of their businesses is how to provide incentives for employees to protect, rather than steal, the source of organizational rents. We study how the entrepreneur's response to this problem will determine the organization's internal...
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