Abstract
In a White Paper entitled Building Business… not Barriers (Department of Employment, 1986) the UK government made the following statement (our emphases):
The prime aim of the Department of Employment is to encourage the development of an enterprise economy. The way to reduce unemployment is through more businesses, more self-employment and greater wealth creation, all leading to more jobs.
The key aspects of the Department’s work are to:
Promote enterprise and job creation in growth areas such as small firms. self-employment and tourism.
Help businesses to grow by cutting red tape …
Improve training arrangements …
Help the young and those out of work for some time to find work …
David Storey is Director of Research, Small Business Centre, University of Warwick and Stephen Johnson is Research Associate of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. A version of this text was first published in April 1987.
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Storey, D., Johnson, S. (1989). Are Small Firms the Answer to Unemployment?. In: Shields, J. (eds) Making the Economy Work. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20307-9_8
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