Related RAND Research
Small business being such an overarching field, many research units within RAND have conducted related studies. Here, we provide links to some recent reports and working papers.
Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis - 2006
Ehud Kamar, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Eric Talley
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Summary
Small Businesses and Workplace Fatality Risk: An Exploratory Analysis - 2006
John Mendeloff, Christopher Nelson, Kilkon Ko, Amelia Haviland
Full Document Research Brief
Nanomaterials in the Workplace: Policy and Planning Workshop on Occupational Safety and Health - 2006
James T. Bartis, Eric Landree
Full Document (conference proceedings)
Improving Contracting at the City of Los Angeles Airports, Port, and Department of Water and Power - 2005
Mark Y.D. Wang, Nancy Y. Moore, Sarah Hunter and Nancy Nicosia
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State Efforts to Insure the Uninsured: An Unfinished Story - 2005
Excerpt: Reforms in the market for small-group insurance and small-group purchasing alliances are intended to make insurance more accessible and affordable for small businesses, which are less likely to offer insurance to their workers than are larger firms.
Research brief
Self-Employment Trends and Patterns Among Older U.S. Workers - 2003
Lynn A. Karoly and Julie Zissimopoulos
Working paper
Transitions to Self-Employment at Older Ages: The Role of Wealth, Health, Health Insurance, and Other Factors - 2003
Julie Zissimopoulos and Lynn A. Karoly
Working paper
Seeking Nontraditional Approaches to Collaborating and Partnering with Industry - 2002
Bruce Held, Kenneth P. Horn, Christopher Hanks, Michael Hynes, Paul Steinberg, Chris Pernin, Jamison Jo Medby, Jeff Brown
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Federal Contract Bundling: A Framework for Making and Justifying Decisions for Purchased Services - 2001
Laura H. Baldwin, Frank Camm, Nancy Y. Moore
Excerpt: Many commercial organizations have found that bundling services cuts their total costs and improves service. These goals are important to federal organizations too. But federal organizations have an additional mandate: By law, they are required to support small businesses. Bundling results in fewer, larger contracts that may be beyond the capabilities of small businesses.
Full document Research brief
Extending Health Care Insurance to Specific Populations - 2000
Excerpt: Much of the effort to get health insurance to the uninsured has focused on restructuring the small-business insurance market. Most of the non-elderly in the United States obtain their health insurance through their employers. However, small firms are less likely than large ones to offer health insurance benefits to employees. Indeed, 60 percent of uninsured non-elderly workers are employed in small firms.
Research brief
The Financial Implications of Releasing Small Firms and Small-Volume Contributors from Superfund Liability - 2000
Lloyd S. Dixon
Excerpt: Releasing from Superfund liability those firms that contributed only a small proportion of the waste to a site appears to be more cost-effective than releasing small firms from liability. In addition, although there is evidence that large firms will benefit from the transfer of small firms' costs to the Fund, the effect of such a transfer is ambiguous. Implementing reforms that would release small firms or small-volume firms and transferring their volume-based cleanup costs to the Fund may prove costly in terms of additional transaction costs.
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