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ILR REVIEW
Volume 66, Issue 4, Pages 833-873Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/001979391306600405
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Although much has been written about the quantity of jobs created by entrepreneurs, scholars have yet to examine the quality of these jobs. In this article, the authors begin to address this important issue by examining nearly 5,000 businesses that began operations in 2004. They investigate the extent to which nascent employers provide what many think of as quality jobs-those offering health care coverage and a retirement plan. The authors find that because of small scale, constrained resources, and protection from institutional pressures, start-up companies do not provide their employees with either of these proxies for job quality, and their likelihood of offering health or retirement benefits increases only marginally over their first six years of operation. The finding that entrepreneurs' impressive record of job creation is not matched by a similarly impressive outcome with respect to job quality challenges policyrnakers to ensure that entrepreneurs are encouraged to create quality employment opportunities in the course of creating new businesses.
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