This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The central theme of the paper is that, with the exception of a recent paper by Audretsch and Fritsch for Germany, the relationship between new-firm startups and employment growth has previously been...

The United States-Mexico Border is 3,183 km long, running overland for 1,117 km and along rivers for 2,066 km (see Figure 1). Geographically, the border area is a desert plain broken by a mountainous zone in the region of the two Californias. The border’s highest altitude is 1,200 meters above sea level, which is reached where the border passes by Dtiuglas, Arizona (U.S.A.) and Agua Prieta, Son...