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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year ... by Mirioron on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @07:52PM (#19091674)
According to the 2018 SBA fact sheet about Sweden by the EU commission [1] Sweden does employ fewer people in small and micro businesses than are employed on average in the entirety of the EU. Small and micro businesses in Sweden employ 46.6% of the workforce, while in EU-28 the percentage is 49.4%. If you add medium businesses to it you get 65.5% for Sweden and 66.4% for EU-28. You can also find some interesting measurements about entrepreneurship in Sweden compared to the EU average int he report.

I'm not saying this specific thing is the reason why Sweden's small businesses employ fewer people, but you can't just ignore this either.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/32581/attachments/28... (PDF)

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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year ... by int_19h on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:09PM (#19091769)
Those numbers seem close enough that it's hard to conclude that there's a significant effect (especially given that there are many more variables at play here than just parental leave).
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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year ... by pertymcpert on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @10:41PM (#19092516)
Wow, those percentages are really close. From your opening sentence it seemed like you were going to say something like 60% and 20%. Seems there's no point at all :)
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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year ... by Mirioron on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @01:24AM (#19093142)
The numbers have to be fairly close because they're in the same economic system. Furthermore, Sweden's numbers are included in the average as well.
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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year ... by pertymcpert on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:23AM (#19093369)
You said you can't just ignore this either, yet there is nothing to glean from your supposed point. The numbers are far too close, and Europe far too diverse to infer anything. It's a waste of the 30 seconds of life of anyone who reads the post.
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