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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. (...)

  • 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 (...)

  • «The importance of startups in job creation and job destruction»
    26 May 2011, by Rose Blackburry

    Job creation and destruction in the US have been studied by Haltiwanger et al using Census Bureau longitudinal data and show a rate of job creation that is around 18% of existing jobs with job destructions around 16%, leaving a net creation of around 2%.
    Using time series from 1977, they were able to show that startups created «3 million jobs per year during 1992–2005, four times higher than any other yearly firm age group. For comparison, there are an average of 800,000 jobs created at (...)

  • USA: Employment in start-ups depends strongly on the initial size
    23 September 2011, by Emmanuel Darche

    During the recent financial crisis, many redundancy plans occurred in France: Molex, Caterpillar, Goodyear ... Job destructions, often by hundreds, are indeed frightening. But the media coverage of these social plans and their related conflicts, should not obscure the fact that jobs destruction are taking place by thousands whatever the economic environment, and, at the same time there are also jobs creation by thousands. What is the balance of jobs creation and destruction? And what are (...)

  • GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP MONITOR PROJECT
    25 May 2011, by Romain Sautard

    The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project began in 1999 and is a unique research project which annually measures entrepreneurial activity in many countries. The project also aims to study the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth. Fifty-nine countries participated in the GEM twelfth edition in 2010. The Kauffman Foundation, the Babson College , USA, and the London Business School are one of the three main founders of the GEM project.
    This project aims to (...)

  • Presentation of the Kauffman foundation
    25 May 2011, by Romain Sautard

    The Kauffman Foundation and Entrepreneurship
    The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation was established in the mid-1960s by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman. Based in Kansas City, Missouri, the Kauffman Foundation is among the thirty largest foundations in the United States with an asset base of approximately $2 billion.
    The Kauffman Foundation promotes economic ideas that contribute to improving the global economic system. For this purpose, it focuses, through (...)

  • «Estimating entrepreneurial jobs — Business creation is job creation»
    26 May 2011

    Abstract
    «This paper distinguishes two kinds of jobs in the process of business creation. One is the “employment job” offered by an employer to an employee through a contractual (paid) relationship. The other is the “entrepreneurial job” created by active business owners for themselves. Only a small proportion of salaried entrepreneurial jobs are included in official employment statistics. To estimate the scale of entrepreneurial jobs, this paper examines mainly three databases—the Panel (...)