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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …
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We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a value added 28 percent lower than their male counterparts....
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This paper investigates whether the female self-employed are more affected by the COVID-19 crisis than the male self-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family/social, economic and psychological factors on...
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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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This paper extends prior theory linking present-day sex ratios to present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men … backward in time to explore the long-run gender origins of entrepreneurship. We argue that present-day propensity for … entrepreneurship among men will be higher in neighbourhoods which had historically high sex ratios. We propose that high sex ratios …
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pt. 1. Country reports on women's entrepreneurship -- pt. 2. Research topics on the growth of women-owned businesses …
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. Developing, Shaping and Growing Entrepreneurship considers the role played by education, research, context and strategy in … wide-ranging examination of the influences on entrepreneurial activity that also asks new questions of entrepreneurship and …
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current topical issues in European entrepreneurship and small business research. With contributions from international experts … entrepreneurship within different contexts. Students and academics interested in gender and entrepreneurship will benefit from this far … / Alexander Chepurenko -- 3. Women gender and entrepreneurship : why can't a woman be more like a man? / Susan Marlow -- 4 …
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Women's entrepreneurship research and the understanding of factors influencing the growth of women-owned business have …
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