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State small-group health insurance reforms, implemented in the 1990s, aimed at controlling the variability of health insurance premiums and to improve access to health insurance. These reforms only affected firms within a specific size range, and as a result, they may have affected the size of small firms around the legislative threshold and may also have affected the propensity of small firms to offer health insurance.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9579.html Apr 7, 2011 Apr 7, 2011

Raises concerns that the bundling of health insurance and employment may discourage business creation.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000173.html Dec 31, 2009 Dec 31, 2009

<p>This study documents the most important public and private programs designed to promote self-employment and small business creation and critically examines the existing research on the effect of those programs. The authors find that business and self-employment assistance programs are heterogeneous in important dimensions.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF265.html Nov 24, 2009 Nov 24, 2009

<p>Participants at this conference presented research on and discussed policy issues affecting the growth of entrepreneurship in India, with special emphasis on education and the effective utilization of infrastructure. This document summarizes the proceedings and includes several of the speakers' presentations.</p>

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/09/17/PPG.html Sep 16, 2009 Sep 16, 2009

<p>The damage done by the financial crisis now seems to require not a refurbishing job but an extreme makeover. While soul-searching and even self-loathing are inevitable during a crisis, this is no time for America to shy away from a capitalist system that has produced decades of economic growth, writes Krishna Kumar.</p>

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2007/12/11/index1.html Dec 11, 2007 Dec 11, 2007

An improved understanding of the effects of regulation on small businesses will help lawmakers develop policy designed to advance entrepreneurship.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG663.html Dec 11, 2007 Dec 11, 2007

<p>The regulatory environment affects small business differently from the way it affects large ones, sometimes leading to unintended negative consequences. An improved understanding of this effect will help lawmakers develop policy designed to advance entrepreneurship.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR442.html Apr 27, 2007 Apr 27, 2007

<p>In a study examining whether women-owned small businesses are underrepresented among firms contracting with the federal government, RAND found that the results vary depending on the way the measurement is made.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20071212.html Dec 31, 2006 Dec 31, 2006

<p>Dans une economie avec contraintes de liquidite, les individus ont plus de difficultes a creer leur entreprise faute d'un financement suffisant de la part des banques.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070623.html Dec 31, 2006 Dec 31, 2006

<p>This paper focuses on the effect of liquidity constraints and startup costs on the relationship between wealth and fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. The authors consider a model of heterogeneous agents with occupational choice.</p>

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2006/05/08.html May 8, 2006 May 8, 2006

May 8, 2006 News Release: RAND Study Shows Sarbanes-Oxley Act Had Short-Lived Effect on Small Businesses.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR371.html May 5, 2006 May 5, 2006

<p>Small workplaces that are a business' only location are among the safest places to work. Fatal accidents are most common at small worksites with fewer than 20 workers that are operated by middle-sized businesses.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF227.html Apr 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006

<p>The U.S. government is providing insufficient funding and other resources to understand and manage risks that nanomaterials pose to the health of workers in the rapidly growing nanotechnology industry.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB471-1.html Feb 25, 2005 Feb 25, 2005

<p>L.A.'s port, airport, and Department of Water and Power together contract for more than a billion dollars worth of goods and services annually; these activities could be made more transparent and efficient, thus improving public trust.</p>

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2004/09/27/SD.html Sep 27, 2004 Sep 27, 2004

Published commentary by RAND staff.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040028.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1401.html Jan 1, 2002 Jan 1, 2002

Describes three nontraditional approaches to the Army's goal of collaborating and partnering with industry.

http://www.rand.org/about/people/b/burgdorf_jim.html

<em>Assistant Policy Analyst</em><br>Ph.D. candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School; B.A. in public policy, administration, and analysis, New College of Florida

http://www.rand.org/about/people/c/connor_kathryn.html

<em>Associate Cost Analyst</em><br>B.A. in economics, Baylor University; M.P.P, University of Chicago

http://www.rand.org/about/people/d/derbyshire_james.html

<em>Senior Analyst</em><br>Ph.D. in innovation policy, University of Liverpool; M.B.A., Durham University Business School; B.A. (Hons) in history, University of Liverpool