This paper empirically examines firm owners' gender difference in labor demand. We estimate the average treatment …

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

, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled …

. -- Entrepreneurship ; gender difference ; start-up propensity ; decomposition analysis ; KfW Start-up Monitor ; Germany … one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large …, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …

In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship. … and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among …

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 …

hours and earnings is despite family responsibilities and home-schooling, industrial gender segregation and women's greater …

technology and markets, and contextual factors such as legal and regulatory constraints, social norms, access to care, and gender …

entry strongly applies to unincorporated entrepreneurship, but only weakly to incorporated entrepreneurship. This highlights … the association of unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship with necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship …

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 …