Micro enterprises are a more important source of jobs in some countries than in others. Data from Entrepreneurship at a Glance, a publication of the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD), shows wide variation across nations in the share of employment in micro-businesses. While nearly 60 percent of Greeks work in businesses with one-to-nine employees, only 4.6 percent of Slovaks do.
Americans are less likely than people in many other countries to work in micro enterprises. As the figure below shows, only 11.1 percent of Americans worked for companies with fewer than ten employees in 2007 (the latest year for which the data are available).
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