substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity - women and immigrants … substantially more financially rewarding option for most women. These findings raise the question of why low-skilled women enter … options and limited labor market opportunities in the wage/salary sector as motivating native born women to enter self …

both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal …This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new … hypotheses; that women are less likely to undertake entrepreneurial activity in countries where the rule of law is weaker; where …

entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate … differences between men and women, with women concerned more with lifestyle factors and less with financial gain. Market …

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

monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to women working fewer hours than men. In contrast variables like family … that self-employed women do not earn less because they are seeking work-family balance rather than profits. Differences in …

-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate different earnings measures addressing the role of business equity. We compare … 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 …

wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried …-employment sector that offers better opportunities and monetary success. Self-employed women in Germany fare well and most importantly …

business careers, and by investigating differences between native women (both from West and East Germany) and migrants using a … alternative choice. Women choose self-employment over a business career in the salaried sector when they are older, less educated …, have under-age children, and parents who are self-employed themselves. When women are younger and more educated but have …

evaluations which are restricted to microfinance clients, we consider two more representative groups: a random sample of women … operating subsistence enterprises, and a random sample of women who are out of the labor force but interested in starting a … of follow-up surveys taken over two years and find that the short- and medium-term impacts differ. For women already in …

We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19 waves of the NLSY database. By … for entrepreneurs than for employees (18.3 percent and 9.9 percent, respectively). We perform various analyses in an … attempt to explain the difference. We find (indirect) support for the argument that the higher RTE for entrepreneurs is due to …