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Job Generation and New and Small Firms: Some Evidence from the Late 1980s

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  • Hart, Mark
  • Hanvey, Eric

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This paper adopts a components of employment change methodology and examines the process of job generation in the late 1980s for three contrasting regions of the United Kingdom. The emphasis in the analysis is on the contribution of new and small firms to regional manufacturing employment growth. The results indicate the important role of new and small indigenous firms in the job generation process, particularly in Northern Ireland, in the period 1986-90. However, the level of displacement associated with these job creations is sufficiently high to cause concern about the long term sustainability of these trends. The paper concludes by arguing that policies designed to stimulate new firm formation and small firm growth are not in themselves sufficient to promote growth. Copyright 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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  • Hart, Mark & Hanvey, Eric, 1995. "Job Generation and New and Small Firms: Some Evidence from the Late 1980s," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 7(2), pages 97-109, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:kap:sbusec:v:7:y:1995:i:2:p:97-109
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    3. Stephen Roper, 2004. "Job Creation and Destruction in Northern Ireland - 1973-1993," The Economic and Social Review, Economic and Social Studies, vol. 35(2), pages 183-218.
    4. Anil Rupasingha & Stephan J. Goetz, 2013. "Self-employment and local economic performance: Evidence from US counties," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 92(1), pages 141-161, March.
    5. Susan Baines & Jane Wheelock, 1998. "Reinventing Traditional Solutions: Job Creation, Gender and the Micro-Business Household," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 12(4), pages 579-601, December.
    6. Leila Hassani & Seyyed Mojtaba Mojaverian & Esmaeil Yasari, 2012. "Determination of Success of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Supported by Agriculture Bank of the Province of Mazandaran in Iran," Journal of Agricultural Science, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 4(9), pages 230-230, July.

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