This paper analyzes the impact of small firms’ entry and exit dynamics on net job creation in Tunisia during 2000–2013. Our descriptive and exploratory econometric analyses exploit a database of the population of Tunisian firms; the results support the idea that small firms in a developing...

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...

"According to the "compensation theory", market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour-saving impact of process innovations. In this paper a critique of this approach is proposed through a detailed survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on the subject. The...