Internationalisation Monitor 2010

Netherlands

Globalisation has become a popular and much discussed topic over the past two decades. International developments have major implications particularly for a small and open economy like the Netherlands. The recent financial and economic crisis illustrates the role the international economy plays for the Netherlands...(more)

Internationalisation Monitor 2009

Netherlands

EThe growing internationalisation of the production of goods and services means that national economies are becoming more and more interconnected. This process of economic globalisation is characterised by increasing international trade and foreign direct investments, and by a growing role of multinational enterprises...(more)

Structural and Demographic Business Statistics

OECD

The Structural and Demographic Business Statistics (SDBS), 2006, publication marks a significant change from the last publication in this area (Structural Statistics for Industry and Services, 2003) in a number of ways. The most important of these is the incorporation, for the first time, of structural business statistics by size class; an important development reflecting the increased policy and analytical focus on entrepreneurship and the role of small and medium enterprises within economies...(more)

Eurostat Manual on Business Demographic Register

OECD

Demand for statistics on business demography has grown and developed considerably in recent years. Data on births and deaths of enterprises, their life expectancy and the important role they play in economic growth and productivity, as well as the information they provide for tackling social demographic issues, are increasingly requested by policy makers and analysts alike.…(more)

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise: Characteristics and Performance

Nov 2010

US ITC

This report is the third in a series by the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) that examines the domestic and global operations of U.S. small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The Commission found that U.S. exporting SMEs outperform their nonexporting SME counterparts by several measures. Whether they deal in services or manufacturing, exporting SMEs show higher total revenues, faster total revenue growth, and higher labor productivity than their nonexporting SME counterparts. The Commission also found several noteworthy contrasts between exporting large firms and exporting SMEs…(more)

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise: US and EU Export Activities and Barriers July 2010

US ITC

This report examines the extent and composition of U.S. exports by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and factors that may disproportionately impede U.S. SME exports. It compares the exporting activities of SMEs in the United States with those of SMEs in the European Union (EU); describes barriers and costs associated with exporting, as reported by U.S. SMEs; and identifies the benefits to U.S. SMEs from improvements to the exporting environment resulting from free trade agreements (FTAs) and other trading arrangements…(more)

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise: Overview of participation in US Exports Jan 2010

US ITC

This report describes characteristics of domestic small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the role they play in U.S. exports. Within the U.S. economy, SMEs account for the vast majority of firms and approximately half the gross domestic product (GDP) generated by nonagricultural sectors. However, SMEs accounted for only about 30 percent of merchandise exports between 1997 and 2007...(more)

A new integrated system of business micro-data 1989–04

Italy

Micro.3 is the outcome of a joint collaboration ISTAT-LEM. The development of MICRO.3 took a considerable amount of time and involved the work of researchers at several units at ISTAT together with collaboration of LEM members during the various phases of the project. What made the project even more demanding was the necessity to bridge together data coming from different sources. Ofcourse, since Micro.3 and the related database contain census data collected by ISTAT it can only be accessed at ISTAT facilities in Rome on the basis of a research agreement....(more)

Handbook on compilation of BES in Africa - December 2009

UN DESA

Over the years, the United Nations Statistical Commission has considered a number of conceptual and practical issues pertinent to the compilation of economic statistics. The Commission has also been concerned with the capacity of national statistical systems to meet the high demand for timely economic statistics of high quality, produced in the most cost effective manner...(more)

Trade by Enterprise Characteristics 2009

Turkey

There were 47 352 enterprises in exports, 51 627 in imports. For exports, the proportion of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME’s) which had 0-249 employees, was 59,8% and 40,1% for imports. In 2009, the rate of micro enterprises (0 -9 employees) was 17,3%, small enterprises (10- 49 employees) was 25,1%, medium-sized enterprises (50-249 employees) was 17,4% and large enterprises (250+) was 39,8% in exports..(more)

Towards Unrestricted Public Use Business Microdata:

US Census Bureau

Many national statistical agencies collect data on business establishments; however, very few disseminate establishment-level data as unrestricted public use _les. Instead, they disseminate business data in highly aggregated forms, such as the County Business Patterns and the Business Dynamics Statistics released by the U. S. Census Bureau or the Business Employment Dynamics released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.1 The dearth of establishment level data stems from requirements, both legal and practical, to protect the confidentiality of establishments' data... (more)

Making Tax Data Count

New Zealand

Official statistics form the basis for informed policy development and evaluation by central and local government, as well as underpinning decision making by businesses and the public. Data collected within the tax administrative system offers opportunities to complement existing sources of official statistics, to support wider uses of available data, or to minimise provider load within existing outputs..... (more)

Partner: Statistics New Zealand

Measuring business births and deaths in quarterly job-flow data

New Zealand

This paper’s purpose is to develop a suitable method to identify the contribution that start-up businesses (business births) make to total job creation in the New Zealand economy. And similarly, the contribution of closing businesses (business deaths) to total job destruction in the economy. Developing this method will enable further research into total job creation and destruction across the economic business cycle.…(more)

Partner: Statistics New Zealand

Firm level analysis of international trade in services

Austria

Balance of payments statistics serve as the common basis for analyzing cross-border trade in services, providing information about exports and imports by individual countries or by economic or monetary areas, specified by service categories and partner countries...(more)

US-Canada Supply Chains

Canada

Reduced barriers to the flow of capital, goods, and services, combined with rapid advances in communication and transportation technology, have for many years been fostering increased specialization of production activity, and this trend continues. The same factors have also led large firms, particularly multinational firms, to reorganize how they manage their operations…(more)

High-tech Trade by Enterprise Characteristics

European Commission

Until now two approaches existed to identify high-tech foreign trade: The product approach which uses a list of goods classified as high-tech products2 and the sectoral approach which identifies the trade by the sectors classified as high-tech industries. The current nomenclature of the sectoral approach stems from an investigation done by Thomas Hatzichronoglou presented in 1997 by the OECD and was subsequently updated in 2005 and reviewed by the EU Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in 2008…(more)

An Anatomy of International Trade

NBER

We examine the sales of French manufacturing firms in 113 destinations, including France itself. Several regularities stand out: (1) the number of French firms selling to a market, relative to French market share, increases systematically with market size; (2) sales distributions are very similar across markets of very different size and extent of French participation; (3) average sales in France rise very systematically with selling to less popular markets and to more markets....(more)

21st Meeting of the Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers

OECD

In the context of globalization, one of the main challenging development areas for external trade statistics is to link them more closely to other statistics. The linkage of trade statistics with business statistics allows to measure, on the one hand, the contribution of real economic sectors to trading, and on the other hand, to complement business data with detailed information on trade, which is traditionally not part of business statistics...(more)

Structural and Demographic Business Statistics

OECD

The Structural and Demographic Business Statistics (SDBS), 2006, publication marks a significant change from the last publication in this area (Structural Statistics for Industry and Services, 2003) in a number of ways. The most important of these is the incorporation, for the first time, of structural business statistics by size class; an important development reflecting the increased policy and analytical focus on entrepreneurship and the role of small and medium enterprises within economies...(more)

Revised NACE and Business Register

Switzerland

This paper examines the experience of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office in the implementation of the revised classifications of economic activities. A description of background, the different tasks, the challenges in the coordination activities are the main subjects that will be addressed. The model of the revision system in the statistical system will be also presented…(more)