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permeability between occupational and private life is discussed as one special outcome of this development that employees must face …, especially those in highly qualified positions. Drawing on existing research, we investigate in how far women and men in those … opportunities. Referring conflicting theoretical arguments, we hypothesize that in Germany – as a conservative welfare state – women …
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," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for … understand the likelihood of women migrating if they participate in a CCT program, issues of selectivity, endogeneity, and … contemplating migration encourages women to accept CCT. And if a household perspective is brought to bear, then a household's free …
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Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model … economies would benefit from removing obstacles to women's land tenure and enabling financial institutions to lend against …
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A common concern with efforts to directly help some small businesses to grow is that their growth comes at the expense of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which randomizes business training at the market level, and then...
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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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This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean … countries. The study analyses the impact of women in apical positions within firms (top manager or owner) on firm performance … Regression Adjustment (IPWRA) estimator are used. The analysis finds that opportunities for women in these positions in the …
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We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use...
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Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on gender differences in entrepreneurship focus mostly on showing the differences, but not much literature discusses where the differences come from, and how to mitigate them. This...
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...
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Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth. Fearing that this declining impact would undermine...
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