(6) The World Bank, Enterprise Surveys, http://www.enterprisesurveys.org
(*) In the present research:
Job creators are defined as firms that employed more or the same
number of employees at the time of the survey than they did three
years before.
Job destroyers are defined as firms that employed fewer employees at
the time of the survey than they did three years before.
Source: Endeavor Insight Analysis - Adapted from World Bank Data
In order to analyze the impact of scale-ups on job creation in Lebanon, Endeavor Insight
used data from the 2013 World Bank Enterprise Survey which consists of a sample of 561
firms that are representative of the Lebanese non-agricultural sector
6
.
Three types of firms were identified in the study:
• Start-ups up to three years old
• Scale-ups greater than three years old
• Non-scale-ups greater than three years old
The definition of scale-ups adopted was the following: a firm more than three years old
with an average annual employment growth rate greater than or equal to 20% during
the previous three years.
The sample of non-high-growth firms (or non-scale-ups) includes job creators and job
destroyers.*
Non-scale-ups
Scale-ups
Start-ups
3%
85%
12%
DATA ANALYSIS REVEALED THAT
SCALE-UPS REPRESENT 12% OF FIRMS
IN THE LEBANESE ECONOMY
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