Occupational sector selection is an important determinant of returns for female entrepreneurs. If sectors that are …'s relationships and networks, especially those provided through male relatives, and being opportunity-driven entrepreneurs appear to … challenges of encouraging female entrepreneurs to enter male-dominated sectors, in an effort to provide new insight into how the …

This paper analyzes data on female and male entrepreneurship that were collected by the World Bank Group …'s Entrepreneurship Database. Recognizing the importance of a differentiated approach to entrepreneurship in terms of legal entities, the …. Forty-four of the 143 economies that participated in the Entrepreneurship project provided some sex-disaggregated data for …

particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the concept of "entrepreneurship" is critically discussed … the creation new firms, such as the targeting of policy measures to prospective entrepreneurs who possess high education …

The aim of this study is to provide a microeconomic investigation of the concept of entrepreneurship; in particular, it … discusses the following issues: 1) the alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing "creative destruction … (of the new firm); and 4) the possible scope for an economic policy aimed at maximizing the impact of entrepreneurship on …

Entrepreneurs that voluntarily choose to start a business because they are able to identify a good business opportunity … and act on it -- opportunity entrepreneurs -- might be different along various dimensions from those who are forced to … become entrepreneurs because of lack of other alternatives -- necessity entrepreneurs. To provide evidence on these …

heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …/informal sector. These new establishments were concentrated in industries where women entrepreneurs have been traditionally active and …

. Are there potential high-growth entrepreneurs with the ability to grow their firms beyond this size? And, if so, can … public policy help alleviate the constraints that prevent these entrepreneurs from doing so? A large-scale national business …

Previous studies have established a negative relationship between total government spending and entrepreneurship …. By combining macroeconomic government spending data with individual-level entrepreneurship data, the analysis finds a … entrepreneurship while confirming a negative relationship between total government consumption and entrepreneurial activity. The …