Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner …

We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the … gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of …

entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the … non-cognitive skills, with gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance in Africa. We have found that while financial … literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education …

This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the … entrepreneurial productivity to start-up capital and skills. The empirical analysis of a survey of entrepreneurs in Swaziland … confirmed the importance of start-up capital for sales. Women entrepreneurs have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to …

In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship … and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among …

access to new financing options change the gender configuration of informal economic activity and, if so, in what ways and … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative … entrepreneurs than men in the informal sector …

Blau and Kahn (JOLE, 1997; ILRR, 2006) decomposed trends in the U.S. gender earnings gap into observable and … strong trend of changing gender composition of household-representative respondents toward more females. Second, we estimate … the impact of the changing gender composition on Blau and Kahn's decomposition. We find that a non-ignorable portion of …

the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical …