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The family – a barrier or motivation for female entrepreneurship?
Rønsen, Marit - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
situation. I study the presence of children and their ages, the role of the partner’s characteristics and the household …’s financial resources. The results show that women are more likely to choose self-employment over wage-work when the children are … small, indicating that children are no barrier to entrepreneurship, at least not when defined as self-employment as in this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678298
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Why are there so few female entrepreneurs? An examination of gender differences in entrepreneurship using Norwegian registry data
Raknerud, Arvid; Rønsen, Marit - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2014
children are no barrier to female entrepreneurship. This result holds also when we look at the establishment of an incorporated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079245
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Housewives in a dual-earner society. Who is a housewife in contemporary Norway?
Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2011
. Housewives are overrepresented among the less educated, those with health restrictions, women with many children and young … children, non-Western immigrants and those with a partner with fairly high income. The partners’ aggregate income is lower in … of satisfaction with their division of labour and domestic economy. The analysis does not support the popular notion that …
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Executive board composition and bank risk taking
Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Schaeck, Klaus - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2012
Little is known about how socioeconomic characteristics of executive teams affect corporate governance in banking. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of financial institutions. First, we establish that age,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957149
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Executive board composition and bank risk taking
Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Schaeck, Klaus - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2012
Little is known about how socioeconomic characteristics of executive teams affect corporate governance in banking. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of financial institutions. First, we establish that age,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535440
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The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006
Hoyos, Alejandro; Ñopo, Hugo; Peña, Ximena - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2010
This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matchingcomparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capitalcharacteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000-2001; and 2002- 2006. The gaps dropped from the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468482
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The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006
Hoyos, Alejandro; Ñopo, Hugo; Peña, Ximena - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2010
This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matchingcomparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capitalcharacteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000-2001; and 2002- 2006. The gaps dropped from the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468487
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Are Business Cycles Gender Neutral?
Razzu, Giovanni; Singleton, Carl - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2013
We study the relationship between business cycles and gender employment rate gaps in the UK over the last four decades, on which there is surprisingly limited evidence. An analysis of employment rates as opposed to unemployment accounts for the greater tendency of women to move in and out of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747650
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Gender Bias in Access to Finance, Occupational Choice, and Business Performance
Hashimzade, Nigar; Rodionova, Yulia - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2013
We analyze, in a model of occupational choice in the labour market and discrimination in the capital market, the relationship between the gender of the owner and of the top manager of a firm, access to finance, and this firm's performance. Occupational choice serves as the link from the capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747656
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Is the willingness to take financial risk a sex-linked trait? Evidence from national surveys of household finance
Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2013
We investigate whether the willingness to take investment risk is a sex-linked trait and link the results to the country's gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on self-reported risk tolerance for Austria, Italy, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010984745