Wednesday, March 23, 2011

US Has Fewer Entrepreneurs And Self-Employed Than Before The Recession

From "The Great Recession’s Effect on Entrepreneurship" by Scott Shane, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland:
Despite the claim that recessions are a time of opportunity for entrepreneurs, the Great Recession had a negative impact on U.S. entrepreneurship. At the end of the recession, the United States had fewer businesses and self-employed people than it had before the downturn began. While some measures indicate that a big part of this decline came from the increased closure of existing businesses, the largest effect came from a decline in new business formation, particularly for businesses with employees, the more economically substantial type of business.
Read the complete commentary here.

3 comments :

  1. Recession will affects all. It is a chain reaction.
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  2. No doubt the insane amount of regulations has an impact here.

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