SMEs and regional economic growth in Brazil
Tulio A. Cravo
Adrian Gourlay
Bettina Becker
2134/6005
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/preprint/SMEs_and_regional_economic_growth_in_Brazil/9492695
This paper examines the relationship between the Small and Medium Enterprise
(SME) sector and economic growth for an annual panel of Brazilian states for the
period 1985-2004. We investigate the importance of the relative size of the SME
sector measured by the share of the SME employment in total formal employment
and the level of human capital in SMEs measured by the average years of schooling
of SME employees. The empirical results indicate that the relative importance of
SMEs is negatively correlated with economic growth, a result that is consistent with
previous studies examining developing countries. In addition, our results also show
that human capital embodied in SMEs may be more important for economic growth
than the relative size of the SME sector.
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Firm size
Market structure
Economic growth
Human capital
Economics
Economics not elsewhere classified