The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains … largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs … influence the investment decisions of entrepreneurs and the performance of their firms. In general, a hybrid political order …

substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity – women and immigrants … substantially more financially rewarding option for most women. These findings raise the question of why low-skilled women enter … options and limited labor market opportunities in the wage/salary sector as motivating native born women to enter self …

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …

secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a … religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and increases the tendency for modernity. Education reduces women … men or women. The impact of education on religiosity and voting preference is not working through migration, residential …

failure can be characterized by the following syllogism: (1) the empowerment of women is a sine qua non for economic progress …; (2) in-group norms among Muslims do not empower women; and hence (3) Muslim communities will underperform economically …

that, even after controlling for other variables, traditional collectivist communities strongly adhering to adat and Islam …

Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and …