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Is there any evidence that, in the long run, startups are net job generators?
Is there any evidence that, in the long run, startups are net job generators?
- informatimago 10y agoFor programmers, obviously. For steel workers, or taxi drivers, definitely not.
- marvel_boy 10y agoI doubt it. Even for programmers effects of start-up scene are not allways positive.
- azuajef 10y agoThis is also my initial impression. But is there any published study in favor or against this view?
- azuajef 10y agoBut even for programmers, I wonder if start-ups are actually generating sufficient jobs now.
- deep_attention 10y agoWhy steel workers? I find it difficult to imagine that startups would "disrupt" heavy industries like steel production.
- meric 10y agoUnless it's a steel company startup in a country with a newly discovered iron and/or coal resource, or a taxi startup in a country with no previous taxis.
- tmaly 10y agoI remember around the year 2000, there was a newspaper clipping about a guy that had received an award. It might have been a nobel prize, but I cannot remember now. He essentially proved that mergers and acquisitions destroyed jobs. Yes this seems intuitive, but he backed it up with proof. Large companies are ingrained in their industry, and when you see them in the news, it is usually related to mergers and acquisitions. So if larger companies do not create jobs, who creates them then? I would say it is successful startups. Are they net job generators, I do not have any data to prove or disprove that. But I can say that new innovation provides more opportunities for job creation.
- id122015 10y agoI think the books are balanced. First the startups generate jobs. Next "government intervention" imposes a minimum wage, and startups replace half of work-force with.. technology. Like it just happened recently in the USA with some food chain as I've heard.
- deep_attention 10y agoWould a minimum wage push the startups to replace their workforce?
- alain94040 10y agoDefinitely. Remember that startups include the hugely successful ones. If Google and Facebook had been started in Spain instead of the US, do you think Spain would have more jobs now?