Development. We examine the role of financial constraints in SME growth, with emphasis on business cycles and credit access. We …

This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in … sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial services; the impacts of business training; barriers to hiring …

, while keeping business-cycle conditions fixed, leverages variation in the composition of labor demand that labor …

government, business and civil society to promote a recoupling of economic and social prosperity. …

-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … psychological. Moreover, former business owners fail to adapt to an involuntary self-employment exit even two or more years after … costs of business failure. …

global macro factor plays a major role in explaining G-7 business cycles, but there are also spillovers from equity and house … country-specific macro factors (i.e., these spillovers affect business cycles in all G-7 economies) and are stronger in the …

Immigration, like any positive labor supply shock, should increase the return to capital and spur business investment …. These changes should have a positive impact on business creation and expansion, particularly in areas that receive large … immigrant inflows. Despite this clear prediction, there is sparse empirical evidence on the effect of immigration on business …

Can publicly available, web-scraped data be used to identify promising business startups at an early stage? To answer … as their business purpose statements (BPSs) supplemented by core accounting information along with founder and initial … (iii) either variables describing the initial characteristics of the startup (to predict startup survival) or business …

men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which …