Crossing the Employer Threshold: Determinants of Firms Hiring Their First Employee
Job creation is paramount to America’s full economic recovery. How can job creation be encouraged? Since small businesses have historically created a disproportionately large share of new jobs, this research analyzes the factors that lead…
Profile of Veteran Business Owners: More Young Veterans Appear To Be Starting Businesses
Jules Lichtenstein, November 8, 2013
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Measuring the Benefit of Federal Tax Expenditures Used by Small Business
Tax expenditures are provisions in the tax law designed to benefit specific groups of taxpayers. They are similar to spending programs but generally do not involve direct federal outlays. Rather, they work through the income tax system,…
An Analysis of Internet Sales Taxation and the Small Seller Exemption
As the popularity of online shopping has grown, states have seen their sales tax revenues drop. The Supreme Court has ruled that states cannot require a company to collect sales tax on transactions with their residents when the company has…
New England Small Business Weighs in on U.S.–E.U. Trade Arrangements
The United States and European Union have begun negotiating a new trade agreement, the proposed U.S.–E.U. Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (or T-TIP). This transatlantic trade partnership was announced by President Obama…
OSHA Withdraws Proposed Changes to Its On-site Consultation Program
Each year, thousands of small businesses take advantage of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s On-Site Consultation Program. This voluntary program offers small businesses free confidential advice to identify workplace…
Advocacy’s RFA Training Program Teaches Federal Agencies How To Consider Small Business Impact
“Significant” and “substantial.” These two concepts are at the heart of the Office of Advocacy’s training on the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA). The RFA requires federal rulemaking agencies to consider small business impacts when they…
Small Business Lending Continued to Improve in First Quarter 2013
The Office of Advocacy’s Quarterly Lending Bulletin for the first quarter of 2013 suggests that while the total amount of small business lending is not yet on the rise, the overall picture is improving. The total amount was down slightly,…
Advocacy Seeks New Small Business Research
The Office of Advocacy sponsors research documenting the status of small businesses and the impact of important trends. To this end, the office has just announced nine requests for quotations (RFQs) for small business research. The research…
Patent Trends among Small and Large Innovative Firms during the 2007-2009 Recession
Anthony Breitzman, Ph.D., May 2013
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Purpose
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Great Recession commenced in December 2007 and ended in June 2009. This!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…