FIELD has released their findings from last year’s microenterprise Census, and so we take a look back at their 2012 report discussing business development services in the sector.
Resource Category: Microbusiness
Regional Food Hub Resource Guide
The USDA guide for food entrepreneurs and their supporters interested in starting or expanding food hubs.
Declining Size of Establishments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics examines the trend of businesses growing smaller, not larger, over the last two decades.
Veteran-Owned Businesses
The SBA’s office of advocacy reports on veteran-owned businesses and micro-businesses and entrepreneurship within the veteran community.
IP and Women Entrepreneurs Part I
The number of women awarded patents has soared over the last several decades far beyond previously reported figures, and the percentage of trademarks granted to women has more than doubled, a new study commissioned by the National Women’s Business Council found.
The Self-Employment Tax Initiative
A report from the Center for Enterprise Development on tax preparation and small business.
Start-Ups are Key to Job Creation
Martin A. Sullivan responds to a New York Times article about where new jobs come from in the United States; it isn’t where most people think.
Women-Owned Firms in the U.S.
The 2007 data was fully released in June 2011, so the NWBC commissioned a private research company to study this data in-depth. The data was analyzed by different characteristics to further expand the current understanding of women-owned businesses and to search for any interesting or unique findings that bear further study.
State of Small Business Report
Pepperdine Business School reports on small business in the state of California. (Spoilers: They’re in favor.)
Earnings of Female Hispanic Entrepreneurs
Using microdata from the 2001-2009 American Community Surveys, the 2000 U.S. decennial census, and the 2001-2011 Current Population Surveys, this paper analyzes the earnings and employment patterns of Hispanic entrepreneurs in the first decade of the 2000s. In light of this population’s heterogeneity, our analyses also consider gender- and immigrant-related outcomes. The findings indicate a rising presence of Hispanics in the entrepreneurial sector during the 2000s, especially for immigrants. This increase resulted from the overall growth in the Hispanic population in the U.S. as well as from rising self-employment rates within the Hispanic workforce. Analyses of earnings further indicate that the most recent recession offset some (but not all) of the progress Hispanic women had made with respect to reducing their self-employment “penalties” in the decade, but this was not the case for Hispanic men. Moreover, the recession led to higher rates of microentrepreneurship (defined as having fewer than ten employees) among the self-employed, particularly for foreign-born Hispanic women. These findings indicate Hispanic entrepreneurial growth appeared to have a positive impact on job creation in the 2000s, but mostly at the scale of smaller firms, especially near the end of the decade. The paper concludes with a set of policy implications.