Link Between Firm Births and Job Creation: Is There a Upas Tree Effect?
The paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. The authors find, for Great Britain as a whole, no significant
relationship between startups and employment creation in the 1980s, but a negative relationship for the low enterprise area of the North East of England.
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ftp://papers.mpiew-jena.mpg.de/egp/discussionpapers/2004-33.pdf