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 …

ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling …

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

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 …

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 …

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …

-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model …

. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …

less successful on average than non-Latino whites. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mexican-American entrepreneurship … ownership rates by roughly seven-tenths of a percentage point for both men and women. Human and financial capital deficiencies …