small business
Impact of Regulatory Costs on Small Firms
The report analyzes the cost of regulations on small and large firms. Results indicate that small firms spend twice as much on tax compliance as their larger counterparts.
Making Technological Knowledge Work: A Study of the Absorptive Capacity of Irish SMEs
The study examines the capacity of Irish SMEs to absorb and use knowledge from outside the firm. The focus is to identify areas which require strengthening ensuring that these firms have such ‘absorptive capacity’ and enable them to play a key role in developing the Irish economy.
Spin-off Firms and Individual Start-ups: Are They Really Different?
This paper shows, based on an empirical study of American entrepreneurs, that spin-offs are indeed a step ahead of firms that do not receive support from a third party company.
Engines of Growth: Why Low-income Communities Need Small Business
According to the report, small businesses and microenterprises have an important role to play in low- and moderate-income communities. Often they are the engines of growth in these neighborhoods.
Development of Business Data: Tracking Firm Counts, Growth, and Turnover by Size of Firms
This report shows that creating firm size data on the dynamic U.S. economy has been difficult. Administrative data include delays for the purposes of capturing births, closures, corporate restructuring, mergers, and spin-offs.
Small Business by the Numbers: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
This document serves as a summary of other research materials and provides a series of quick, easy-to-recite facts for an external audience to recognize the importance of small business in the economy.
Quarterly Indicators: The Economy and Small Business (1st Quarter 2004)
This regular publication pulls together data from a variety of sources to highlight quarterly economic trends relevant to small business.
Quarterly Indicators: The Economy and Small Business (2nd Quarter 2004)
This regular publication pulls together data from a variety of sources to highlight quarterly economic trends relevant to small business.
Quarterly Indicators: The Economy and Small Business (3rd Quarter 2004)
This regular publication pulls together data from a variety of sources to highlight quarterly economic trends relevant to small business.
Quarterly Indicators: The Economy and Small Business (4th Quarter 2004)
This regular publication pulls together data from a variety of sources to highlight quarterly economic trends relevant to small business.