1. Does unemployment lead to self-employment?

   • Nigel Meager

   OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 103

2. Selection of workers and firm heterogeneity

   • George W. J. Hendrikse

   OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 111

3. Evidence of creative destruction in the U.S. economy

   • Edgar Norton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 123

4. Firm size, firm growth, and persistence of chance: Testing GIBRAT's law with establishment data from Lower Saxony, 1978–1989

   • Joachim Wagner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 131

5. Region-specific technology policy in Belgium: The significance of New Technology Based Start-ups

   • Jean Pierre Segers

   OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 139

6. Transaction Costs and standardisation in professional services to small business

   • Bart Nooteboom
   • Peter Zwart
   • Tammo Bijmolt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 151

7. Regional innovation and small high technology firms in peripheral regions

   • Angel Martínez Sánchez

   OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 168

8. Small business, banks and SBA loan guarantees: Comment

   • Allan S. Mandel

   BriefCommunication Pages: 169 - 170

9. Book reviews

   • Felix R. Fitzroy
   • Sandra Honig-Haftel
   • Philippe Fontaine

   BookReview Pages: 171 - 177