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• Business creation and employment
  17 May 2011, by Bernard Zimmern

  In the late 70s, an MIT researcher shook the whole world of economists by showing that large firms, those that make the media buzz, those who made the Fortune Magazine cover page, does not create jobs but lose them and that employment is created primarily by small companies and even the very small.
  When David Birch invented the new discipline of business demography, he was not arguing that large companies do not create jobs but as a category, they destroy more jobs than they create. (...)

• French unemployment, lack of gazelles and Bercy laxity.
  25 June 2012, by Bernard Zimmern

  Firm-demography offers an explanation of French unemployment, based on 10 years of research and hundreds of studies with some 20 listed on this site. In France, we create 200,000 jobs a year less than we should, by not creating enough "gazelles". This is the failure of a tax administration, Bercy, that does not understand business creations and did not want to copy what works abroad.
  French unemployment? Lack of "gazelles", laxity of Bercy.
  The explanation of French unemployment is (...)

• France : Twice less businesses, three times less employment created than in Germany
  26 May 2011, by Rose Blackburry

  Is this the best kept statistical secret in France? These figures are not found on Eurostat where newly created businesses and jobs appear similar for France and Germany.
  On the contrary, French official statements celebrate the success of start-ups creation without taking into consideration that almost all companies being created are without employee, so that we do not know whether these companies are empty shells.
  To avoid this, several international statistics agencies, including (...)

• French unemployment continues to rise
  15 June 2012, by Nathalie DROAL

  Despite all President Sarkozy’s efforts, unemployment has continuously increased since 2007. That is unfortunately the conclusion we draw from DARES and international statistics.
  Eurostat data shows a French unemployment rate at 9,7%, compared to 8,4% in 2007, which means an increase of more than 15%. But it is far from taking into account all the unemployed people. It follows the narrow International Labour Organisation (ILO) definition. In application of the international definition (...)

• French companies dwarfism (3)
  6 April 2012, by Romain Sautard

  Though birth of new companies or growth of high growth firms lag behind UK and Germany, the increase in overall private employment is parallel. The reason of that apparent inconsistancy is found in the creation of low skill jobs by government French programs, such as home service jobs. But this does not increase exports and the cost to the public budget of those jobs is tremendously high.
  The French companies « dwarfism » (3)
  Recent studies performed by IRDEME show that, compare to (...)

• French firms dwarfism (2)
  13 March 2012, by Romain Sautard

  The number of firms born without employees has been exploding in France but those born with employees, employer firms, have been steadily and ridiculously half Germany and UK

• French companies dwarfism (1)
  13 March 2012, by Romain Sautard

  The French trade deficit has been attributed to the lack of medium size companies but in fact France is lacking firms in all sizes above 10 employees.