Empirical work on micro and small firms has focused on developed countries.The little work that exists on developing countries is all too often based on smallsamples taken from ad hoc questionnaires. The census data we analyze are fairlyrepresentative of the structure of small business in India....

Empirical work on micro and small firms has focused on developed countries. The little work that exists on developing countries is all too often based on small samples taken from ad hoc questionnaires. The census data we analyze are fairly representative of the structure of small business in...

Chapter 1: Microentrepreneurship: An Interdisciplinary View -- Chapter 2: The Spatial Distribution of Self-employment -- Chapter 3: Economic Returns to Occupational Choice -- Chapter 4: Size of New Start-Ups Across Space -- Chapter 5: Firm growth and barriers to growth among small firms in India...