shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering … credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some … enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses …

concentrated in different sectors, women entrepreneurs being better represented in labor intensive sectors such as trade and …The authors summarize the extant literature on the relationship between gender and entrepreneurship. They note … significant quantitative gender differences in business entry, with male-owned firms heavily prevailing over firms owned by women …