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Establishing accurate data for the failure rates for small businesses is quite challenging as such information is not gathered cleanly in many countries, there are many ways of interpreting the existing data, and current reports show conflicting evidence. Research from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has highlighted that 66% of new establishments were still in existence 2 years after their birth, and 44% were still in existence 4 years after their establishment. These figures would appear to be a ...

It is now widely recognised that people with disabilities suffer discrimination when it comes to employment opportunities. A report by the National Disability Authority in 2005 highlighted that the employment rate of people with disabilities aged 15 to 64 years was 37.1% while the corresponding figure for non-disabled people was 67%. An examination of employment rates by gender revealed that women have lower rates of employment than men, but that this was equally applicable to people with and without disabilities.

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In recent times there has been an increasing level of media coverage dealing with the topic of minority entrepreneurship inIreland. The issue has been driven primarily by the influx of immigrants and the subsequent growth in new ventures by non-Irish nationals. The discussions have been startlingly weak in their perspectives of what minority entrepreneurship represents and the cause of such restrictions is born in the limited understanding that people have of the terms ‘entrepreneurship’ and ‘minority’.

Entrepreneurship is widely perceived to ...