Investigates the factors influencing job creation in small firms, firm survival and potential predictors of firm success. One key purpose of this study is to better understand market failures which might warrant public policy intervention. Part one conducts an analysis on a database of 636...

This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The central theme of the paper is that, with the exception of a recent paper by Audretsch and...