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Dienstleistungssektor untersucht. Im Dienstleistungssektor fanden 2013 knapp drei Viertel aller Gründungen statt und damit weniger als 1998 … Dienstleistungssektor rückläufig, allerdings mit teils erheblichen Unterschieden in den einzelnen Dienstleistungsbranchen. An der Dominanz … selten im Gründungsgeschehen im Dienstleistungssektor vertreten. …
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The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …
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The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce … barriers to advancement in the workplace faced by women. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all … industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women …
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This study analyses employers' support for the introduction of industry-specific minimum wages as a cost-raising strategy in order to deter market entry. Using a unique data set consisting of 800 firms in the German service sector, we find some evidence that high-productivity employers support...
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This article analyzes married women's labor supply responses to their husbands' job loss (added worker effect) and … worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or … underemployed are more likely to participate in the labor force and work more hours using yearly cross-sectional data from Turkey …
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tendency of women to start businesses in the service sector, which is underrepresented in the crafts. Women also tend to be … women to care for children and actively participate in the labor force at the same time. On the other, incomes are generally … lower. Women are more risk averse and tend to be more cautious in their entrepreneurial endeavors. They are more likely to …
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The paper contributes by providing new insights into the relationship between female labor force and economic growth in 162 countries over the period 1990-2012. We anticipate uncovering U-shaped impact of economic growth on female labor force. To examine the previous we deploy longitudinal data...
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migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …
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In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on … decision to become selfemployed to test for differences between women and men in the ceteris paribus impact of several …. A core finding is that the difference between men and women in both the extent and the effect of considering fear of …
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