employment of SMEs as a whole is inevitably low. The rate of increase in per capita value-added for large firms was made possible … by a steep decline in the rate of increase for employment. After the Asian Financial Crisis, SMEs began to catch up with …"Why are low-quality jobs created at SMEs? It is because the large companies hand over labor-intensive production to …

relative to their share of employment. Jobs created by small firms are no less likely to persist than those created by large …

on technology and to the role of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in providing employment opportunities ….To better understand these trends, the clustering of British SMEs in two high-technology sectors of computing services and … Office for National Statistics, choosing SMEs with fewer than 200 employees; the data were sorted by region, county, and …

destruction relative to their share of employment. This finding is robust to the definition of firm size used …

This paper provides new evidence that, controlling for other effects, the growth of employment in high technology SMEs … depends on the initial horizontal clustering. The paper focuses on employment change over the period 1991-2000 in Computing … cause of employment growth, although there are important differences of geographical scale at which this effect operates for …