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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen: Proclivity and Performance

Constant, Amelie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...

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Explaining female and male entrepreneurship at the country level

Verheul, Ingrid; Stel, Andre van; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

This study aims at explaining female and male entrepreneurship across countries. Explanatory variables are derived from … three streams of literature, including the literature on the determinants of entrepreneurship, the literature on female … labor force participation, and that on female entrepreneurship. To test the hypotheses use is made of Global …

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Explaining female and male entrepreneurship at the country level

Verheul, Ingrid; Stel, Andre van; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for 29 countries this study investigates the (differential) impact of … several factors on female and male entrepreneurship at the country level. These factors are derived from three streams of … literature, including that on entrepreneurship in general, on female labor force participation and on female entrepreneurship …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765252

Explaining Female and Male Entrepreneurship at the Country Level

Verheul, Ingrid; van Stel, André; Thurik, Roy - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

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Perceived financial barriers and the start-up decision: An econometric analysis of gender differences using GEM data

Stephen, Roper; Jonathan M., Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK 2004 database. Standardising for a range of individual characteristics, we find that women are around …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602760

Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies

Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

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

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Entrepreneurship Among Married Couples in the United States: A Simultaneous Probit Approach

Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within couples is formulated and estimated. Empirical analysis reveals significant and substantial...

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Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants Versus Natives

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or selfemployed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...

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Institutions, Networks and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: An Exploration

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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

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Entrepreneurial Ventures and Wage Differentials Between Germans and Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and then we investigate whether self-employment has a differential effect on the wages of individual workers and can lead...

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