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What works in supporting women-led businesses?

Ubfal, Diego - 2024

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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Gender gaps in the evaluation of research : evidence from submissions to economics conferences

Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos - 2019

We study gender differences in the evaluation of submissions to economics conferences. Using data from the Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (2015-2017), the Annual Meeting of the Spanish Economic Association (2012-2017), and the Spring Meeting of Young Economists (2017), we...

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Pay and job rank amongst academic economists in the UK : is gender relevant?

Mumford, Karen; Sechel, Cristina - 2019

This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be important determinants of the relative wage and...

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Male gatekeepers gender bias in the publishing process?

Bransch, Felix; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2017

Using data on articles published in the top-five economic journals in the period 1991 to 2010, we explore whether the gender composition of editorial boards is related to the publishing success of female authors and to the quality of articles that get published. Our results show that female...

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The rise of female entrepreneurs : new evidence on gender differences in liquidity constraints

Sauer, Robert M.; Wilson, Tanya - 2015

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …

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Foreign direct investment and domestic entrepreneurship : blessing or curse?

Danakol, Seçil Hülya; Estrin, Saul; Reynolds, Paul … - 2013

between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra‐industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …

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"Romanticizing penniless entrepreneurs?" : the relationship between start-ups and human wellbeing across countries

Naudé, Wim; Amorós, José Ernesto; Cristi M., Oscar - 2013

We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …

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Inputs, gender roles or sharing norms? : assessing the gender performance gap among informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar

Nordman, Christophe J.; Vaillant, Julia - 2014

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 value added 28 percent lower than their male counterparts....

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A tale of minorities : evidence on religious ethics and entrepreneurship from Swiss census data

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2014

significantly higher propensity for entrepreneurship. The estimated difference ranges between 2.3 and 4.4 percentage points. Our …

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The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology

Poschke, Markus - 2014

: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …

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