The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers’ attention; however, it has recently been recognised that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...

High-growth firms (HGFs) have attracted considerable attention recently, as academics and policymakers have increasingly recognized the highly skewed nature of many metrics of firm performance. A small number of HGFs drives a disproportionately large amount of job creation, while the average...

Anyadike-Danes M. (2004) The real north-south divide? Regional gradients in UK male non-employment, Reg. Studies 38, 85-95. Unemployment rates across the UK's regions are now more similar than they have been for many years. But has the longstanding north-south gap in labour market performance...

Discussions of the UK's recent labour market performance commonly mention the contrasting trends in the unemployment rate (down), the employment rate (up) and the inactivity rate (flat). These same commentaries also notice that the 'flatness' of the overall inactivity rate masks contrasting...

The paper investigates the relationships between registrations, de-registrations and population density at county level in the UK using VAT data for 20 years over the period 1980–1999. The rationale for this is based on the need to understand how the extent to which, in different parts of the...

[eng] Contractionary budgetary policy is not the traditional government response to rising unemployment but it seems now to have become a common one for OECD governments irrespective of their political complexion. This changed attitude seems traceable to the almost universal growth in government...

[fre] Depuis la conception dans les années trente de la comptabilité nationale dans sa forme moderne, la procédure d'évaluation de la valeur des stocks est sujette à controverse. La règle généralement adoptée par les comptables nationaux est de soustraire des variations de stocks et...