Firm size and job creation: evidence from Turkey

Doğan, Ergün; Islam, M. Qamarul; Yazici, Mehmet

doi:10.1080/1331677x.2017.1305804

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“…Recently, Neumark et al (2011) provide evidence of the significant contribution of small firms towards job creation in the United States of America. Some other studies too have analyzed the role of small firms and find similar results (see de Wit & de Kok, 2014;Dogan et al, 2017;Hijzen et al, 2010;Huber et al, 2017;Ma et al, 2015;Picot & Dupuy, 1998). However, some studies present findings that contradict the popular view that small firms are the main job creators (Cho et al, 2017;Davis et al, 1996;Kerr et al, 2014) while others have argued that it is not firm size per se that drives job creation but rather the start-up businesses (Haltiwanger et al, 2008(Haltiwanger et al, , 2013Klapper & Richmond, 2011;Lawless, 2014).…”

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confidence: 54%

Which firms drive employment growth in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Kenya

Esaku

2021

Small Bus Econ

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There is evidence that the age of the firm rather than its size is important in job creation. We find that it is young firms that are large (in terms of employment level) that drive employment growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. These results imply that; firstly, addressing unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa requires creating enabling business environment that supports very young firms. Secondly, research on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) should focus on understanding the theoretical mechanisms that help young firms to create more jobs than any firm category.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 54%

Which firms drive employment growth in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Kenya

Esaku

2021

Small Bus Econ

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“…His findings showed that 81.5 percent of all net new jobs in the United States during 1969-1976 were created by firms with 100 or fewer employees. Similarly, [23] conducted a study in Turkey among non-farm business with 20 -100 employees and concluded that, small firms (firms with employees between 20 and 100 employees) had higher mean job creation rates than larger firms.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Role of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to Employment in Ghana

Amoah¹,

Amoah²

2018

IJBER

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The study used descriptive statistics design type to assess the role that MSMEs are playing with respect to employment in Ghana. The study adopted the methodology employed by Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) to undertake a nationwide survey on the Integrated Business Establishment Survey II (IBES II, 2016). It used the data generated by GSS from IBES II 2016 Survey report. The data set used included the employment levels (numbers), size and the status of employment (permanent and temporary) offered by MSMEs in Ghana. It was revealed from the study that the MSMEs in Ghana offered employment of about 82 percent to the working population in the country with marked differences in the regions. Out of the employment offered by MSMEs in Ghana, about 81 percent is for permanent whilst 86 percent is for temporary employment. The Micro enterprises employed larger percentage of the working population than the Small and Medium enterprises. We are recommending that the central, regional and district structures of governance in the country should continue to initiate, develop and implement pragmatic policies that will enhance the growth of the MSMEs' sector in the country. The programmes and policies to enhance the growth of the Sector should be focused on specific areas and size of the MSMES. The MSMEs sector at all levels is still confronting with both endogenous and exogenous challenges such as access to funds, lack of managerial skills and applications of appropriate technologies, registration and regulations issues as well as record keeping and access to international market. All stakeholders in the sector should work hand in hand to resolve these challenges for optimum operation of the MSMEs in the country to help reduce the unemployment situation in the country.

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“…The results concerning the impact of size and age on employment rate support those of a number of previous studies (Hall, 1987; Broersma and Gautier, 1997; Oliveira and Fortunato, 2006; Criscuolo et al ., 2014; Yazdanfar and Öhman, 2015), although they stand in contrast to the results of Aga et al . (2015), Pyo et al (2016) and Dogan et al (2017) regarding the size variable, and the results of Voulgaris et al . (2005) and Aga et al .…”

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confidence: 86%

Growth and job creation at the firm level: Swedish SME data

Yazdanfar

2018

MRR

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between firm sales growth and employment level as a proxy for job creation among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach The hypotheses were empirically examined by performing several univariate and multivariate regressions to investigate a large panel data set of 13,548 Swedish SMEs in four industry sectors in the four-year period from 2009 to 2012. Findings The results indicate that growth, in terms of sales, as a competitive advantage is positively related to the number of employees hired by the sampled firms. In addition, the size and age variables are also positively associated with the number of employees hired. The results support the suitability of implementing the resource-based view to explain job creation by SMEs. Originality/value While previous studies have mostly ignored the impact of these firm-level variables on job creation, the current study highlights the effect of firm-specific characteristics such as sales growth, size, age and industry. The authors use a combination of models to analyse a large cross-sectoral data set regarding the association, in SMEs, between the firms’ sales growth and job creation.

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Firm size and job creation: evidence from Turkey

Cited by 10 publications

References 14 publications

Which firms drive employment growth in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Kenya

Which firms drive employment growth in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Kenya

The Role of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to Employment in Ghana

Growth and job creation at the firm level: Swedish SME data

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