start-ups among women and explains about one third of the entire gender difference. Most substantially, men opt for a start …Women start fewer businesses than men. The start-up rate among women in Germany falls short of males' start-up rate by … one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large …

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

Concerns about gender equality have jumped to the forefront of public debate in recent years, and Gender Economics is … slowly affirming its place as a major field of study. This assessment examines where we are in terms of gender equality. It … of policies and interventions targeting gender inequality. In doing so, I provide the foundations against which the …

that while both male and female entrepreneurs in ECA are sub-optimally small, women's returns to scale are significantly …-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly …

substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity - women and immigrants … are shown to be of particular importance both from the perspectives of trends and policy relevance. We find that although … substantially more financially rewarding option for most women. These findings raise the question of why low-skilled women enter …

a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …

female labor forces. We also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender …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 …

In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on … failure to be a reason not to start one's own business is important for the explanation of the gender gap in entrepreneurship. … decision to become selfemployed to test for differences between women and men in the ceteris paribus impact of several …

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 …

-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 …