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Do women top managers help women advance? A panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2012
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...
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Do institutions have a greater effect on female entrepreneurs?
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009
This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269391
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What's the difference?! Gender, personality, and the propensity to start a business
Furdas, Marina; Kohn, Karsten - 2010
educational attainments of potential entrepreneurs do thus not suffice to increase the number of female business starters. …
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Gender, risk and venture creation intentions
Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew - 2012
This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less favourable attitude to risk. Previous research suggests that attitude to risk differs significantly between genders, but has not addressed the question of whether this contributes...
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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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What a Difference a Y Makes : Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the decision to become selfemployed to test for differences...
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Gender differences in business performance: evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2008
Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...
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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 2009
earnings of Hispanic female entrepreneurs to both Latina wage/salary workers and to self-employed female non-Hispanic whites …. Latina entrepreneurs are observed to have lower mean earnings than both white female entrepreneurs and Latina employees …. However, our findings indicate that Latina entrepreneurs often do well, once differences in mean observable characteristics …
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Businesswomen in Germany and their performance by ethnicity: it pays to be self-employed
Constant, Amelie F. - 2008
In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...
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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen : Proclivity and Performance
Constant, Amelie F. - 2004
Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...
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