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Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar

Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Vaillant, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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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Uzbekistan Country Gender Assessment

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

In 2011, Uzbekistan celebrated 20 years of independence. The transition has not been smooth for any country in the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Uzbekistan, too, has experienced both positive and negative developments in gender equality. The status of women and men in Uzbekistan is...

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Entrepreneur et croissance économique : développements récents

Facchini, François - In: Revue d'économie industrielle n° 119 (2007) 3, pp. 3-3

The objet of this article is to present the important literature that developed on the border of economic sciences and management around the role of the entrepreneur in the economic growth, and to discuss its main conclusions. The message of these works is simple: without entrepreneur, no or...

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Diversity as a motive for entrepreneurship?: The case of gender, culture and ethnicity

Alexandre-Leclair, Laurice - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n°14 (2014) 2, pp. 157-175

Diversity is increasingly considered as a motive for entrepreneurship. In our article, we set the hypothesis that … one about the link between culture, ethnicity and entrepreneurship and the other one about gender and entrepreneurship. We … also discuss the last study led by OECD (2012) on gender entrepreneurship. Our article reveals that culture and ethnicity …

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The gendering of entrepreneurship context

Welter, Friederike; Brush, Candida; De Bruin, Anne - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn - 2014

context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …

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The Gender Gap in Federal and Private Support for Entrepreneurship

Gicheva, Dora; Link, Albert N. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2015

The role of gender in entrepreneurship has been thoroughly investigated. However, less is known about gender …

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Commitment or Control? Human Resource Management Practices in Female and Male-Led Businesses

Verheul, I. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2007

This paper investigates the commitment-orientation of HRM practices in female- and male-led firms. A distinction is made between emphasizing commitment or control in the design of HRM practices. To test for gender differences use is made of a sample of 555 Dutch firms. Contrary to what is...

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The Lag Structure of the Impact of Business Ownership on Economic Performance in OECD Countries

Carree, M.A.; Thurik, A.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2006

This paper investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure. The analysis is performed at the country level for 21...

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Assessing entrepreneurship perceptions of high school learners in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal

Mahadea, Darma; Ramroop, Shaun; Zewotir, Temesgen - In: South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences 14 (2011) 1, pp. 66-79

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THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP MODEL OF BUSINESS EDUCATION: BUILDING KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Singh, Rahul; Mishra, Jitendra Kumar; Singh, Mahesh Kumar - Gazdaság- és Társadalomtudományi Kar, Szent István … - 2008

Business education around the globe is similar in one aspect that it needs to track the economic developments and train the students with the latest models of operations. The serious faces of the education institutions come only from the high standards of the research and percolation of the same...

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