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Briefing Paper No. 3/2005 by John Wilkinson
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- Forty per cent of workers, in Australia, are employed in small businesses
(p.3)
- Employment, in a number of segments of small business, has increased
substantially (pp.3-17)
- Employment, in a few segments of small business, has only increased slowly
(pp.17-26)
- Each year a significant number of small businesses fail (pp.26-28)
- A core group of competencies are crucial to success in small business
(pp.29-30)
- Small business often operates under pressure from big business (pp.31-32)
- A number of areas of small business, between the mid-1980s and the
mid-1990s, lost their share of overall employment to big business (pp.32-38)
- A small number of areas, of small business, captured employment from big
business (pp.38-42)
