. Since the majority of women in Germany do not go back to work within a year after childbirth, we also investigate their …

Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? Women have both to a lower entry rate into selfemployment and a higher exit rate … for nonlinear models. Women's higher estimated risk aversion is found to explain the largest part of their higher exit …

confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the … analyze a large data set from the German public pension scheme on women who died between 1994 and 2005, employing both non …-parametric and parametric methods. To overcome the problem mentioned above we concentrate on women with relatively long earnings …

This paper explores the use of informal credit as a strategy for managing risks by market women in northern Ghana. A …. Based on qualitative data, the analysis reveals that market women invest a considerable amount of time in maintaining … high transaction costs and prevents market women from growing out of poverty in the long term. …

. The necessity of a gender view in economics when analyzing the labor supply - especially of women - is discussed on the …