A well established finding in the literature is that self-employment enables mothers to accommodate work and family needs better than organizational employment. This paper uses this result to investigate whether in a dual system of job protection women under temporary contracts face greater...

This paper uses family embeddedness (Cliff and Aldrich, 2003) and Work Family Interface (WFI) (Jennings and McDougald, 2007) to analyze the effect of gender and income on the relationship between family employment and firm performance in the context of micro and small family enterprises. Our...