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, disproportionately more. We test our theoretical prediction using a novel administrative panel-data from Indian courts and the nationally … representative MSME survey data. Empirically, we treat entrepreneurs from disadvantaged castes (SC-ST) as those without traditional …
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what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …
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This paper empirically examines firm owners' gender difference in labor demand. We estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) of female ownership on employment of the firm using the 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS), provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Because...
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This paper investigates the relationship between state-based conflict and entrepreneurship. From a survey of the … opportunity-motivated forms of entrepreneurship, and (2) a positive association with unproductive and necessity-motivated forms of … entrepreneurship. We test these hypotheses by drawing on several state-based conflict and entrepreneurship measures, using appropriate …
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Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses...
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In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship. …
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Job creation is one of the most important aspects of entrepreneurship, but we know relatively little about the hiring … patterns and decisions of startups. Longitudinal data from the Integrated Longitudinal Business Database (iLBD), Kauffman Firm … Survey (KFS), and the Growing America through Entrepreneurship (GATE) experiment are used to provide some of the first …
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the model on data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys in Eswatini, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe, we find land ownership to be …
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and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have …
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one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large …-scale population survey on start-up activity in Germany. As a unique feature, the data combine socio-demographic characteristics …, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …
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