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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

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Serial Entrepreneurship : Learning by Doing?

Lafontaine, Francine - 2014

Among typical entrepreneurs, is the serial entrepreneur more likely to succeed? If so, why? We answer these two … taxable goods and services in the state of Texas. An entrepreneur is defined as the owner of a new business. A serial … entrepreneur is one who opens repeat businesses. The success of the business is measured by the duration over which the business is …

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Entrepreneurship and the City

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2007

Why do levels of entrepreneurship differ across America's cities? This paper presents basic facts on two measures of … entrepreneurship: the self-employment rate and the number of small firms. Both of these measures are correlated with urban success … entrepreneurship is linked to a large number of small firms in supplying industries. Finally, there is a strong connection between area …

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Large Banks and Small Firm Lending

Bord, Vitaly M. - 2018

We show that since 2007, there was a large and persistent shift in the composition of lenders to small firms. Large banks impacted by the real estate prices collapse systematically contracted their credit to all small firms throughout the U.S.. However, healthy banks expanded their operations...

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COVID-19 and SME Failures

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020

We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in … aggregate supply, productivity, and demand shocks. We estimate a large increase in the failure rate of SMEs under COVID-19 of …, 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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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nick - 2006

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival...

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The Importance (or not) of Patents to UK Firms

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2013

a number of explanations for these findings: most firms are SMEs, many innovations are new to the firm, but not to the …

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Support for Paid Family Leave among Small Employers Increases during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bartel, Ann; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The United States is one of the few countries that does not guarantee paid family leave (PFL) to workers. Proposals for PFL legislation are often met with opposition from employer organizations, who fear disruptions to business, especially among small employers. But there has been limited data...

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The Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees

Alekseev, Georgij - 2020

We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...

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Aspirations and Financial Decisions : Experimental Evidence from the Philippines

McKenzie, David J.; Mohpal, Aakash; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

A randomized experiment among poor entrepreneurs tested the impact of exogenously inducing higher financial aspirations. In theory, raising aspirations could have positive effects by inducing higher effort, but could also reduce effort if unmet aspirations lead to frustration. Treatment resulted...

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