of their firm and sales level. However, women with higher education start their firms with more capital than their less …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 …

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 …

than men. Among women entrepreneurs, those with college education and confident in their skills tend to start their firms … 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 …

both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal … hypotheses; that women are less likely to undertake entrepreneurial activity in countries where the rule of law is weaker; where … are more robust and address multicollinearity between the institutional measures. We find that women are less likely to …

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 …. While men are more influenced by other men, women are more influenced by other women. We estimate that differences between …

general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship.The implication is that …

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 is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less …