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 …

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …

This paper examines the persistent effects of historical labor market institutions and policies on women's long …-World War II mandatory reconstruction policy, which compelled women to work in the rubble removal and reconstruction process … era generated persistent adverse effects on women's long-term labor market outcomes. An increase in marriage and fertility …

This paper analyzes the role of networks in access of women entrepreneurs to start-up capital and firm performance in … capital is associated with better sales performance for both men and women entrepreneurs. Women entrepreneurs start their … of their firm and sales level. However, women with higher education start their firms with more capital than their less …

genders with higher start-up capital record better sales performance than those with smaller amounts of capital. For women … 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 …

women in Australia, with the emphasis on the former. We focus on the partnersﾒ involuntary job loss experiences, and analyse …This paper investigates both the added worker effect (the labour supply responses of women to their partners' job … women's labour market activities in the periods before and after their partnersﾒ job loss. By estimating fixed effects …

liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the representation of women in top positions in the … obvious impact on highly qualified women whose qualifications mirror those of board members but who were not appointed to … that the reform affected the decisions of women more generally; it was not accompanied by any change in female enrollment …

the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …