Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk … aversion among women explains a large share of the entrepreneurial gender gap. We also find an education effect contributing to …

We investigate entry in a dynastic entrepreneurship (overlapping generations) environment created by employee spinoffs …

. Focusing on women, we show that those who were required to stay on an extra term more frequently hold some academic … (low level) academic qualification has no effect on a women's probability of being married, but increases the probability …

In 2011, Italy introduced gender quotas for boards of directors of companies listed on its stock market. Comparing … the stock price reaction to the introduction of gender quotas. A positive effect of the quota law on stock market returns … emerges at the date of the board's election. Our results are consistent with gender quotas giving rise to a beneficial …

spin out. This is shown to predict the association of co-ethnic networks with high rates of entrepreneurship and the …

strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person’s partner reduces the … identity loss of unemployed men, but raises it for women. These results suggest that the unemployed’s feeling of identity is … affected by traditional gender roles, while this does not seem to be the case for the affective part of their subjective well-being …

entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …