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service. Three empirical findings emerge: First, the overall employment size of women-owned businesses shrank more than men …-owned businesses after the pandemic outbreak; second, women were more likely than men to cut personal expenditures and use government … service areas of both incumbents and entrants shrinking over time. These results have implications for policies on women …
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women are more likely to experience reductions in hours worked and earnings. This greater adverse impact on women's working … hours and earnings is despite family responsibilities and home-schooling, industrial gender segregation and women's greater … propensity to run a non-employing business and to work part-time. However, lower attitude to risk in women is associated with …
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The aim of our research is to consider the potential for women’s empowerment throughtourism and women’s equality … inherent in the green economy. In addition, our research should shed more light on the women’s dimensions of green growth … women’s perspective with green growth and entrepreneurship development in the tourism sector in Serbia.The research was …
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that women may face higher costs of adopting and using digital tools. Thus, it is unclear to what extent female … likely to use digital tools for internal firm management (e.g., finance). However, women who face higher levels of non … tool use than their male counterparts. We find this relationship is primarily driven by women who start firms in countries …
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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 …
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US entrepreneurs typically work long hours in their firms and these hours form a large part of the firms' labor input. This paper studies the role of endogenous owner hours in shaping the wealth distribution among entrepreneurs. We introduce owners' endogenous labor supply into a model of...
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We investigate the effect of personal income tax (PIT) rates on the number of hours entrepreneurs work weekly. Using the rotating panel data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey from 2003 to 2019, we estimate instrumental variable regressions in first...
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Platform intermediation of goods and services has considerably transformed the U.S. economy. We use administrative data on U.S. tax returns to study the role of the gig economy on entrepreneurship. We find that gig workers are more likely to become entrepreneurs, particularly those who are lower...
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Young and small firms are typically matched with younger and nonemployed individuals, and they provide these workers with lower earnings compared to other firms. To explore the mechanisms behind these facts, a dynamic model of entrepreneurship is introduced, where individuals can choose not to...
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