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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 … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …
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This paper explores the relationship between self-employment, partner’s employment, the household and children on a mother’s and father’s probability to choose self-employment. Few studies are available on this topic and their analysis is mainly limited to the female role in the North...
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Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional …
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lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …
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achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …
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differences in achievement into gender differences in endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors. This descriptive … resources and take similar advantage of these resources. Our findings indicate that gender differences in resources with respect …
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working conditions are only secondary factors. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that of …
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We posit that historical resource scarcities played a role in the emergence of gender norms inimical to women that … historical availability of arable land, are statistically significantly negatively related to their present levels of gender … inequality, as gauged by the United Nations Development Programme’s Gender Inequality Index. …
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We provide experimental evidence on the effects of vocational and entrepreneurial training for Malawian youth, in an environment where access to schooling and formal sector employment is extremely low. We track a large fraction of program drop-outs – a common phenomenon in the training...
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