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SMEs and employment in the European Community : an industrial perspective

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  • Nick Clay
  • Stephen W. Creigh-Tyte

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[eng] The importance of small and medium-sized enter-prises in European employment is outlined using research produced for the First Annual Report of the European Observatoire for SMEs. The paper emphasises how far SMEs with under 500 employees provide the main share of employment in entire sectors of the economies of EC Member States.. Furthemore, new job generation and hence the prospects of holding down unemployment are increasingly reliant upon the existence of a thriving small business sector. Howeyer, such reliance raises issues concerning « job quality » in SMEs and the prospects for maintaining labour productivity levels and future labour productivity growth. Such issues are likely to become increasingly important as the Single European Market becomes a practical reality. [fre] L'accent est mis sur l'importance des PME dans l'emploi en Europe à partir de la recherche menée pour le « Premier rapport annuel de l'Observatoire européen des PME ». L'article souligne que les PME de moins de 500 salariés fournissent la majorité des emplois dans des secteurs d'activités entiers des États membres de la Communauté européenne.. De plus, la création d'emploi, et donc les perspectives de contenir le chômage à la baisse, dépendent de façon croissante de l'existence d'un secteur prospère de petites entreprises. Cependant, une telle dépendance soulève des questions en matière de « qualité de l'emploi » dans les PME et de perspectives du maintien des niveaux de productivité du travail ainsi que d'une future croissance de la productivité de travail. De telles questions prendront sans doute une importance croissante dès lors que le Marché unique européen deviendra effectif.

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  • Nick Clay & Stephen W. Creigh-Tyte, 1994. "SMEs and employment in the European Community : an industrial perspective," Revue d'Économie Industrielle, Programme National Persée, vol. 67(1), pages 71-88.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:recind:rei_0154-3229_1994_num_67_1_1508
    DOI: 10.3406/rei.1994.1508
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