This policy brief on women in entrepreneurship was produced by the OECD and the European Commission. It explores the … that their policies help women to participate in the labour market. This policy brief is part of a series of documents …

This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …

We develop a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women … women entrepreneurs. However, there is one area in which female entrepreneurs have an advantage: the hiring of female …. Counterfactual simulations indicate that removing all excess barriers faced by women entrepreneurs would substantially increase the …

What are the effects on the labor market and aggregate income of frictions that restrict women's labor decisions that … impede labor participation and composition being equal between men and women? To answer this question, I develop an … increase by 4.3% without women's restrictions to entrepreneurship and by 32.1% without restrictions to entry and …