Research

Where Will the Jobs Come From? 

This analysis of the 2007 Census data shows that young firms account for roughly two-thirds of job creation, averaging nearly four new jobs per firm per year. Of the overall 12 million new jobs added in 2007, young firms were responsible for the creation of nearly 8 million of those jobs.

Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, 1996-2008 

New business formation increased in 2008 but, in what may be a potential harbinger of the current economic recession, U.S. entrepreneurship rates increased for the lowest-income-potential and middle-income-potential types of businesses from 2007 to 2008; it decreased for the highest-income-potential types of businesses.

Kauffman Economic Bloggers Survey 

America’s top economics bloggers—a diverse group of writers with wide-ranging intellectual and political vantage points—largely agree on one important issue: To help speed the recovery, remove barriers to entrepreneurship.

Kauffman Survey: Entrepreneurship and Economic Recovery 

Americans want to see more initiatives that aid small businesses, according to a new poll by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The survey, conducted by pollster Douglas Schoen, reveals a stark and fundamental gap between the agenda to date in Washington and the attitudes and beliefs of the American people—pointing to a key and unrecognized reason as to why the public has not been satisfied with the overall stimulus package.

America's Loss is the World's Gain: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part IV 

Since even before the 2008 financial and economic crisis, observers have noted that a substantial number of highly skilled immigrants have started returning to their home countries. Who are these returnees? What motivated their decision to leave the United States? How have they fared since returning? This paper attempts to answer these questions through a survey of 1,203 Indian and Chinese immigrants who had worked or received their education in the United States and returned to their home country.