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 …

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 … options and limited labor market opportunities in the wage/salary sector as motivating native born women to enter self … labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses, it is particularly important to seek and evaluate their labor market …

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 …

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 …