We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … and security concerns, are more deeply felt by female entrepreneurs. This may hint at the exclusion of Africa's females … of key business constraints, across both male and female entrepreneurs. We find that females are less likely to export …

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 …

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 …

confirmed the importance of start-up capital for sales. Women entrepreneurs have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to …, business training is positively associated with sales performance of men entrepreneurs, but has no effect on women. However …, this does not call for abolishing training programs for women entrepreneurs. Instead their design and targeting should be …

conclude that policies to support young entrepreneurs in rural Africa should not only focus on creating conditions that attract …Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population … understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper …

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 … Eswatini, a country with one of the highest female unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first shows that higher initial …

We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such … accounted for by women's lower probability of holding any science or engineering degree, because women with such a degree are … scarcely more likely to patent than women without. Differences among those without a science or engineering degree account for …

likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated … the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence …

-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self …

shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering … credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some … enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses …