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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since the start of the Great Recession. In this paper, we re-examine the impact of liquidity constraints on new business formation in an instrumental variables framework, using a...
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search model and empirical analysis of survey of entrepreneurs from Swaziland. The results show that entrepreneurs of both … entrepreneurs, formal finance sources of start-up capital are also associated with higher sales. However, as in other developing … countries, women entrepreneurs in Swaziland have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to fund it from formal sources …
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entrepreneurs themselves? Using Danish register data of newly founded firms and their entrepreneurs and employees between 2003 and …
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This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less favourable attitude to risk. Previous research suggests that attitude to risk differs significantly between genders, but has not addressed the question of whether this contributes...
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We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … of key business constraints, across both male and female entrepreneurs. We find that females are less likely to export … of female entrepreneurs, this limitation does not explain their relative inability to leverage value from exports …
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literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … that women entrepreneurs who are tenacious achieve stronger sales performance. Our results underscore the importance of …-cognitive skills, among policies for women entrepreneurs. …
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Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they … entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses on interventions designed to address four areas of constraints that … various interventions suggest the need for more precise targeting. The multiple constraints faced by women entrepreneurs …
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women entrepreneurs. However, there is one area in which female entrepreneurs have an advantage: the hiring of female …. Counterfactual simulations indicate that removing all excess barriers faced by women entrepreneurs would substantially increase the …
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This paper deals with sex differences in managerial behaviour, by testing the extent to which such differences match those expected from gender stereotypes. Unlike previous research on the topic, always based on opinions about individual managers, this investigation uses firm-level evidence from...
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Using three waves of a uniquely rich survey on Italian private firms, we explore the impact of female managers on the use of part-time work. Building on a literature arguing that female leaders are more sensitive to their employees' needs and more self-transcendent than their male counterparts,...
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