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-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family …
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longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …
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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … formation in an instrumental variables framework, using a previously unexplored data set from the UK. The new results indicate … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …
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what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …
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This paper empirically examines firm owners' gender difference in labor demand. We estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) of female ownership on employment of the firm using the 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS), provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Because...
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Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses...
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In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship. …
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one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large …-scale population survey on start-up activity in Germany. As a unique feature, the data combine socio-demographic characteristics …, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …
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-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups …
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Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? Women have both to a lower entry rate into selfemployment and a higher exit rate in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which includes a standard risk aversion parameter. As inputs...
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