The way in which small firms formulate their short-term employment forecasts is examined. Survey evidence based on the experience of some recently formed small businesses located in the North of England is used to test two models of forecast formation. The empirical results suggest that small...

Tourism employment has grown rapidly (a fact which has been of interest to policymakers concerned with job generation) but it has a marked seasonal character. Several attempts have been made by the industry to lessen seasonality in tourism demand (and hence in tourism employment) by fillng...