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Do Institutions Have a Greater Effect on Female Entrepreneurs?
Estrin, Saul - 2009
both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal …
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Networks, Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurial Performance in Africa : Evidence from Eswatini
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2019
This paper analyzes the role of networks in access of women entrepreneurs to start-up capital and firm performance in Eswatini, a country with one of the highest female unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first shows that higher initial capital is associated with better sales performance for...
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The Rise of Female Entrepreneurs : New Evidence on Gender Differences in Liquidity Constraints
Sauer, Robert M. - 2015
Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023768
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Gendered Entrepreneurship Networks
Markussen, Simen - 2016
In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989187
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Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Swaziland
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2016
This paper examines gender differences in entrepreneurial performance and their links with start-up capital utilizing a search model and empirical analysis of survey of entrepreneurs from Swaziland. The results show that entrepreneurs of both genders with higher start-up capital record better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980353
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Gender Differences in Business Performance : Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia - 2021
Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324952
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Why is There a Spike in the Job Finding Rate at Benefit Exhaustion?
Boone, Jan - 2010
Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a spike in the job finding rate shortly before benefits are exhausted. Current theories explain this spike from workers' behavior. We present a theoretical model in which also the nature of the job matters....
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Long-Term Responses to Large Minimum Wage Shocks : Sub-Minimum and Super-Minimum Workers in Slovenia
Laporsek, Suzana - 2019
This study examines long-term effects of a minimum wage increase using an innovative identification strategy based on categorising workers according to their predicted marginal revenue products. It finds that the increase had a large and persistent disemployment effects on low-paid workers and...
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The Effect of Unemployment Benefit Generosity on Unemployment Duration : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Slovenia
Vodopivec, Matija - 2015
The paper analyses the effects of a 2011 increase in the unemployment benefit replacement rate on the job-finding rate of Slovenian benefit recipients. Using registry data on the universe of Slovenian unemployment benefit recipients, we exploit legislative changes that selectively increased the...
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How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia
Svejnar, Jan; Domadenik, Polona; Praanikar, Janez - 2021
studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317067