Small firms show the highest job growth rates (English)

This is analytical note 1 supporting the International Finance Corporation's jobs report in 2012. The importance of small businesses to job creation has been part of the economic policy narrative since the provocative work of David Birch (1979). Small firms (5-19 workers) have the highest employment growth rates over a two-year period (18.6 percent) across the 106 developing countries, followed by medium-size firms (20-99 workers) with a growth rate...

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Saliola,Federica;

Bernt,Jon Vierk;
Document Date
2012/01/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
82045
Volume No
1
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1
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World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2013/10/24
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Small firms show the highest job growth rates
Keywords
rate of employment

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Saliola,Federica; Bernt,Jon Vierk.

Small firms show the highest job growth rates (English). Assessing private sector contributions to job creation : IFC open source study ; survey note no. 1 Washington DC : World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/911761468331770051

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