1. David Birch, Job Creation in America; New York: Free Press, (1987), p. 51.
2. Ibid., p.166.
3. The CBO data base is described in, Bureau of the Census, 1982 Characteristics of Business Owners Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, (1987), p.III-V.
4. This point is explored further in Timothy Bates and Alfred Nucci, “An Analysis of Small Business Size and Rate of Discountinuance,” Journal of Small Business Management (October 1989), p. 1–6.
5. See, for example, Timothy Bates, “Small Business Viability in the Urban Ghetto Milieu,” Journal of Regional Science (November 1989), p. 630–42.