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literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … that women entrepreneurs who are tenacious achieve stronger sales performance. Our results underscore the importance of …-cognitive skills, among policies for women entrepreneurs …
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How are women entrepreneurs transforming and challenging traditional understandings of professional success in the 21st … styles, documenting strategies for success and barriers confronted, indicates that not much has changed. Women entrepreneurs … "distinguished" (Carayannis & Stewart 2013) women entrepreneurs who have made a difference. Is it not time to shed some light on …
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International Assessment of Adult Competencies survey and International Social Survey Program, we show that women use their … skill use of men compared with women. We argue that having a partner affects skill use through time allocation as the gender … penalty of partnered women is halved once we control for working hours and hours spent on housework. Finally, we do not find …
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freelancing platform. We observe significant occupational sorting by gender, with women over-represented in lower-paying project …, explaining up to 90% of the wage gap. We also find that women work on longer projects and achieve higher application success … gap on the platform primarily reflects distinct usage patterns between men and women. …
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Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk … aversion among women explains a large share of the entrepreneurial gender gap. We also find an education effect contributing to …
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Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...
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Focused on human capital, economists typically explain about half of the gender earnings gap. For a national sample of MBAs, we account for 82 percent of the gap by incorporating noncognitive skills (e.g., confidence and assertiveness) and preferences regarding family, career, and jobs. Those...
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