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 …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of …

-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly … that while both male and female entrepreneurs in ECA are sub-optimally small, women's returns to scale are significantly …

, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is explored. I make use of simple econometric tools to test two null … hypotheses. First, there is no disparity in the income and returns to education benefits of the shift to democracy across gender … in Nigeria. Second, there are no within gender disparities of the shift to democracy on income and returns to education …

developments in Lemieux’s (2002) decomposition method to advance our understanding of the determinants of wage inequality in … introduction of markets and new institutions affected men’s and women’s wage inequality between 1986 and 2003. We find that wage … inequality rises substantially for both men and women. Applying the Lemieux method, we show that market forces drive the increase …

gender attentiveness among MBA students and tolerance for large variability in CEO pay. …

Although business ownership has implications for income inequality, wealth accumulation and job creation, surprisingly … less successful on average than non-Latino whites. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mexican-American entrepreneurship …

This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional …

lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …