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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268550
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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 business start ups by males and females across 44 developed and developing economies between 1998 and 2004. We test four hypotheses; that women are less likely to undertake...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269391
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Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance
Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Said, Mona - 2019
effectiveness of entrepreneurial training with an analysis that links training and human capital, including tertiary education and … literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … complements, tertiary education can act as a channel that makes training effective. Regarding non-cognitive skills, evidence shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179970
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Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2020
This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in low-income countries. Major themes in the literature include the determinants and consequences of joining the formal sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180136
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Why Are Africa's Female Entrepreneurs Not Playing the Export Game? Evidence from Ghana
Ackah, Charles G.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; … - 2020
We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011–2015. Uniquely, the data provides information about the severity of key business constraints, across both male and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322572
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Gender Differences in Business Performance: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247693
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Do Institutions Have a Greater Effect on Female Entrepreneurs?
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new business start ups by males and females across 44 developed and developing economies between 1998 and 2004. We test four hypotheses; that women are less likely to undertake...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469711
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"To Have and Have Not": Migration, Remittances, Poverty and Inequality in Algeria
Margolis, David N.; Miotti, Luis; Mouhoud, El Mouhoub; … - 2013
This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by foreign pensions decrease the Gini index by nearly 4 %...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333195
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The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results
Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017
An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using exogenous refugee supply shocks as natural experiments. Several studies have reached conflicting conclusions about the effects of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744518
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The Impact of the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment on Employment Informality in Algeria
Souag, Ali; Assaad, Ragui - 2017
intermediation program adopted by the Algerian government in 2008, reduced the informality of employment in Algeria. Using repeated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744678