Investigates the regional variation in the rates of new business formation (births) and failures (deaths) in Scottish manufacturing industries. Policies designed to stimulate business formation tend to aggravate regional disparities. This study seeks to develop an understanding of the...

Evidence on job creation and destruction for the United Kingdom is limited, dated, and refers almost entirely to the manufacturing sector. We use firm-level data from 1997 to 2008 for almost all sectors, including services, and show that firms in the service sector exhibit much higher rates of...

Evidence on job creation and destruction for the UK is still limited compared to that available from other countries. What evidence there is refers almost entirely to the manufacturing sector, with the most recent figures referring to the 1980s. There are therefore no recent estimates for the...