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Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...
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We use a sample of 18 countries to study what variables have a significant impact on an indi-vidual’s decision to start a new business and classification and regression trees for an accurate interpretation of the data. Our results support existing literature suggesting the existence of strong...
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Christian Schade -- Understanding the gender gap in entrepreneurship: a multicountry examination / I. Elaine Allen and Nan S …. Langowitz -- Defining and identifying family entrepreneurship: a new view of entrepreneurs / Ramona K. Zachary, Edward G. Rogoff … entreprenseurship in the United Kingdom / Jonathan Levie and Mark Hart -- Entrepreneurship in world cities / Zoltan Acs, Niels Bosma …
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Previous research on age and entrepreneurship assumed homogeneity and downplayed age-related differences in the motives … and aims underlying enterprising behaviour. We argue that the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship influences how the level …
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As governments across the world look to entrepreneurship as a way to increase the wealth and well-being of their … Entry and Entrepreneurial Decisions: The Role of Overconfidence -- 2. Understanding the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: A … Multicountry Examination -- 3. Defining and Identifying Family Entrepreneurship: A New View of Entrepreneurs -- 4. Investor …
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The 2003 USA Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) report indicates that entrepreneurship thrives at very high levels … to 11.9% in 2003. Also, the United States has the seventh highest Total Entrepreneurship Activity (TEA) among the 31 GEM … investigation methods are used in the series of national GEM studies: an adult population survey; interviews with entrepreneurship …
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