"Why are low-quality jobs created at SMEs? It is because the large companies hand over labor-intensive production to … the jobs created at SMEs today are found in low-level companies, such as those with 5-19 employees, the quality of … employment of SMEs as a whole is inevitably low. The rate of increase in per capita value-added for large firms was made possible …

knowledge-intensive jobs less often than larger establishments do, are generally owner-managed and usually appear in the market … the rise in employment in 2010 - when the number of em-ployees reached the highest level since German reunification - was … very largely driven by employment growth amongst the smallest companies. The rise in em-ployment, in turn, led to an …