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Beyond borders : do gender norms and institutions affect female businesses?

Görg, Holger; Jäkel, Ina Charlotte - 2024

In this paper, we investigate whether gender norms and institutions act as a constraint to the performance of female … controlling for other factors that affect female businesses uniformly across all markets. We provide evidence that gender … inequality and institutional biases against women in trade partner countries play an important role in explaining gender …

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Beyond borders : do gender norms and institutions affect female businesses?

Görg, Holger; Jäkel, Ina Charlotte - 2024

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Africa's female entrepreneurs : towards funding success

Hanley, Aoife; Görg, Holger; Hornok, Cecília; Ackah, … - 2021

Aoife Hanley, Holger Görg, Cecilia Hornok and Charles Ackah, the authors examine the scale of the gender productivity gap in …

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Why are Africa's female entrepreneurs not playing the export game? : evidence from Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Hornok, … - 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...

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Why are Africa's female entrepreneurs not playing the export game? : evidence from Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Hornok, … - 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/10012300585

Why are Africa's female entrepreneurs not playing the export game? : evidence from Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Hornok, … - 2020

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Why are Africa's female entrepreneurs not playing the export game? : evidence from Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Hornok, … - 2020

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Place-based policies and agglomeration economies : firm-level evidence from special economic zones in India

Görg, Holger; Mulyukova, Alina - 2022

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...

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Trust-based work-time and product improvements : evidence from firm level data

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2014

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of firms. Employing a panel data set of over 5,000 German establishments, we implement a propensity score matching approach where we only consider firms that did not use trust...

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Management practices and productivity in Germany

Broszeit, Sandra; Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger; … - 2016

Based on a novel dataset, the "German Management and Organizational Practices" (GMOP) Survey, we calculate establishment specific management scores following Bloom and van Reenen as indicators of management quality. We find substantial heterogeneity in management practices across establishments...

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