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The gender gap in entrepreneurship : not just a matter of personality
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2014
Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start-up decision and can explain the gender gap in...
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Corruption beyond the glass ceiling : do women entrepreneurs perceive corruption differently?
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2019
Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption by studying whether female managers and female owners of firms perceived corruption differently; (b) using survey information at the firm level; and (c) employing a large sample...
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Indian entrepreneurial success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - 2013
Kingdom and Canada -- we examine the performance of Indian entrepreneurs and explanations for their success. We find that … business income of Indian entrepreneurs in the United States is substantially higher than the national average and is higher … than any other immigrant group. Approximately half of the average difference in income between Indian entrepreneurs and the …
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The impact of tax incentives on the economic activity of entrepreneurs
Harju, Jarkko; Kosonen, Tuomas - 2013
results imply that entrepreneurs react to tax incentives along both real and avoidance margins, while the latter elasticity is …
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Credit market imperfection, lack of entrepreneurs and capital outflow from a developing economy
Marjit, Sugata; Mishra, Suryaprakash - 2020
This paper explores the impact of credit market on the entrepreneurs and demand for credit in a credit constrained … due to presence/absence of entrepreneurs, i.e., low price of capital in autarky may reflect lack of demand for credit due … to scarcity of entrepreneurs and not capital abundance and eventually may lead to capital outflow from a capital scarce …
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Gender quotas and the quality of politicians
Baltrunaite, Audinga (contributor) - 2012
We analyze the effect of the introduction of gender quotas in candidate lists on the quality of elected politicians. We consider an Italian law which introduced gender quotas in local elections in 1993, and was abolished in 1995. As not all municipalities went through elections during the period...
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Measuring alpha in the fund management industry : do female managers perform better?
Babalos, Vassilios; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2013
This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences. Fund performance is evaluated against funds' designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently with previous studies, no significant differences in...
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Great expectations : the determinants of female university enrolment in Europe
Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara … - 2011
We empirically investigate the determinants of the female decision of investing in post-secondary education, focusing on the role played by the context where young women take their education decision. We first develop a stylized two-period model to analyze the female decision of investing in...
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Selection into leadership and dishonest behavior of leaders : a gender experiment
Grosch, Kerstin; Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A.; … - 2020
Leaders often have to weigh ethical against monetary consequences. Such situations may evoke psychological costs from being dishonest and dismissing higher monetary benefits for others. In a within-subjects experiment, we analyze such a dilemma. We first measure individual dishonest behavior...
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Exposure to female colleagues breaks the glass ceiling : evidence from a combined vignette and field experiment
Finseraas, Henning; Johnsen, Åshild A.; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2015
Increased diversity in the workforce can lead to either more or less discrimination. We study discrimination among recruits in the Norwegian Armed Forces during boot camp. In a vignette experiment female candidates are perceived as less suited to be squad leaders than their identical male...
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