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Though more than 100 countries have adopted gender quotas, the impacts of these reforms on women’s political leadership …
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gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to …
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There is a scarcity of women and minorities at the apex of political power. This paper formalizes the concept of the glass ceiling for political organizations and builds on previous research to suggest four testable criteria. A glass ceiling exists if women and/or racial minorities (1) are...
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numbers to study the drivers of a gender gap in political influence among elected politicians. Using panel data for the … careers of 35.000 Swedish municipal politicians over six election cycles we first document the said gender gap. Women are …
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numbers to study the drivers of a gender gap in political influence among elected politicians. Using panel data for the … careers of 35.000 Swedish municipal politicians over six election cycles we first document the said gender gap. Women are …
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There is a scarcity of women and minorities at the apex of political power. This paper formalizes the concept of the glass ceiling for political organizations and builds on previous research to suggest four testable criteria. A glass ceiling exists if women and/or racial minorities (1) are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014143167
We review and evaluate some recent contributions on modeling entrepreneurship within a neoclassical framework … describe it. However, each modeling attempt focuses only on one specific feature of entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurial … highlight how a simplistic interpretation of the existing mainstream approaches incorporating entrepreneurship runs the risk of …
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prerequisite for innovation and entrepreneurship. This is done by putting the spotlight on the role that formal and informal … institutions often act as impediments to entrepreneurship and innovation. We argue that a common yet underappreciated source of … entrepreneurship. …
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to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. …
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The interplay between entrepreneurship and institutions is crucial for economic development; however, the view that … causality is bidirectional, in that entrepreneurship is also, for better or for worse, one of the main drivers of institutional …, actively try to alter them, or evade them. Particular attention is given to evasive entrepreneurship, an entrepreneurial …
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