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Chapter 2 — Employment and productivity by size of enterprise
16 Division of employment in market services by size of enterprise, 2001
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90
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70
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10
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Micro Small Medium Large
% of total
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90
80
70
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40
30
20
10
0
UK LT NL FR DE AT FI LV IE PL SE BE CZ SI ES EE PT RO IT
DK, EL, LU, HU, MT, CY, SK, BG: n.a. ; DE: 2000 excl. H 1999; NL: 2000 excl. G 1999; PL: 1998; LV, RO: excl. NACE K ; CZ, LT,
PL, SI: excl. NACE H
Source: Eurostat, SBS
Employment in the distributive trade was also concentrated
in small enterprises, if generally to a lesser extent,
except in the southern EU countries and many of the new
Member States. Just under 60% of those employed in the
distributive trades in the EU15 worked in small firms. The
figure, however, was over 75% in Spain, Italy and Portugal,
as it was in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovenia
and Romania, while in Poland, it was only slightly less
(Graph 18). In the UK, on the other hand, half of employment
was in large enterprises .
In business services, the share of employment in small
firms is, in general, relatively low. In the EU15, just under
half of those in employment worked in small enterprises
and 35% in large firms. Small firms, however, predominated
in Italy (accounting for 70% of total employment),
though not in Spain or Portugal as in other service sectors.
This was also the case in the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Lithuania and Slovenia, in each of which 65% or more of
employment was in small firms. In France and the Netherlands,
by contrast, around 45% of employment was in
large enterprises (Graph 19).
In transport and communications, the majority of those
employed tended to work in large enterprises throughout
the EU. The two main exceptions were Spain, with only
17 Division of employment in hotels and restaurants by size of enterprise, 2001
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Micro Small Medium Large
% of total
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UK DK IE SE FI LT EU15 DE AT NL FR SI BE ES PL PT CZ IT
EL, LU, CY, HU, LV, LT, MT, SK, RO, BG: n.a. ; DE: 1999; NL: 2000 ; PL: 1998
Source: Eurostat, SBS
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