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SMEs and Employment Creation: Overview of Selected Quantitative Studies in OECD Member Countries

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High and rising unemployment rates in the early 1990s have moved the employment question centrestage in the policy debate. Among the structural aspects, the relation between firm size and employment creation has attracted policy makers’ attention, triggered by empirical work on the United States which showed that the small business sector had been a major source of net job creation. This work and the rising interest by policymakers led to further studies of the subject, the identification of important methodological and data questions and a broader body of empirical research about the relation between firm size and job creation.This document aims at identifying common results and trends from national studies, as well as identifying “best practices” of analysis and data gathering, and thereby promoting international harmonisation of such analytical work. Principal results from a survey of national studies include: (a) both the rates of gross job creations and gross job losses are ... Au début des années 90, le niveau élevé et croissant des taux de chômage a porté la question de l'emploi sur le devant de la scène dans le débat sur l'orientation de l'action des pouvoirs publics. Parmi les aspects structurels, le lien entre la taille de l'entreprise et la création d'emplois a retenu l'attention des responsables de l'action gouvernementale, des études économétriques réalisées aux Etats-Unis ayant montré que le secteur des petites entreprises est une importante source de création nette d'emplois. Ces travaux, ainsi que l'intérêt croissant manifesté par les autorités, ont amené à effectuer d'autres études sur ce sujet, à poser d'importantes questions méthodologiques et statistiques et à élargir les recherches économétriques concernant la relation entre la taille de l'entreprise et la création d'emplois.Ce document vise à déterminer les tendances et les résultats communs aux études nationales, ainsi que les "meilleures pratiques" d'analyse et de collecte de données, ...

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  • Paul Schreyer, 1996. "SMEs and Employment Creation: Overview of Selected Quantitative Studies in OECD Member Countries," OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers 1996/4, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:stiaaa:1996/4-en
    DOI: 10.1787/374052760815
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    1. Vergara, Sebastián, 2005. "The dynamic of employment in Chilean industry," Revista CEPAL, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), August.
    2. Roseline Oluitan, 2015. "The Impact of Commercial Bank Funding on Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Nigeria," International Journal of Financial Markets, Research Academy of Social Sciences, vol. 1(2), pages 62-69.
    3. Feng Liu & Kwangtae Park & Unjung Whang, 2019. "Organizational Capabilities, Export Growth and Job Creation: An Investigation of Korean SMEs," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(14), pages 1-16, July.
    4. Martin-Barroso, David & Nuñez-Serrano, Juan Andres & Turrion, Jaime & Velazquez, Francisco J., 2011. "The European Map of Job Flows," MPRA Paper 33602, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2011.
    5. Pierre-Majorique Léger & Lise Préfontaine & Pierre J. Tremblay, 1998. "Export Performance and Job Creation: The Case of SMEs," CIRANO Project Reports 1998rp-05, CIRANO.
    6. Kateřina Duspivová, 2011. "Role zahraničního vlastnictví z hlediska tvorby pracovních míst a fluktuace zaměstnanců [The Role of the Foreign Ownership in Job and Employee Flows]," Politická ekonomie, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2011(6), pages 759-774.

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