on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …

one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large …, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice … models and employing decomposition techniques, we find that gender differences in socio-demographics alone would even be in …

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in … economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from … firm); and 4) the possible scope for an economic policy aimed at maximizing the impact of entrepreneurship on economic …

with the ideas of entrepreneurship as being place dependent and that ecosystem measures should be concerned with what …

Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the …

differentials between sectors by gender and between men and women by sector are carried out. Results indicate that when controlled … public administration, there is a large gender wage-gap in the private sector in favor of men. Private returns to schooling …

National Insurance Institute. The paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …?s labor market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …