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We develop a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women … 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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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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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … that it is primarily single women that drive the well-established empirical relationship between personal wealth and … business start-ups. Therefore, public policies specifically targeted at relieving the liquidity constraints of women could help …
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Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they … various interventions suggest the need for more precise targeting. The multiple constraints faced by women entrepreneurs … highlights several interventions that show promise in supporting women entrepreneurs, significant gaps remain in the evidence …
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countries, women entrepreneurs in Swaziland have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to fund it from formal sources … than men. Among women entrepreneurs, those with college education and confident in their skills tend to start their firms … search model and empirical analysis of survey of entrepreneurs from Swaziland. The results show that entrepreneurs of both …
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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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This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in … attention to unique issues that arise with female entrepreneurship. …
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women are more likely to experience reductions in hours worked and earnings. This greater adverse impact on women's working … hours and earnings is despite family responsibilities and home-schooling, industrial gender segregation and women's greater … propensity to run a non-employing business and to work part-time. However, lower attitude to risk in women is associated with …
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significantly higher propensity for entrepreneurship. The estimated difference ranges between 2.3 and 4.4 percentage points. Our …
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also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …
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