This paper focuses on the theme of women entrepreneurs, business and gender in two transitional economies, namely … Nigeria and China. As the OECD Conferences on Women Entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises held in Paris in 1997 and … difficult(OECD, 1998, 2001). Should China and Nigeria follow a similar pattern to other societies during the development process …

adoption and schooling decisions, and show that in this environment the required productivity/distortion differences are much … smaller. The schooling and technology adoption features of the model amplify the effects of productivity … disparity than a standard model. Moreover, I find that it is the interaction between the technology adoption and schooling …

main factors leading to child labor, the book addresses supply side determinants by emphasizing the gender …-specific differences in the trade-off between different forms of work and schooling (based on North Indian evidence). The subsequent … the book addresses the causal effects of trade liberalization on regional child labor and schooling outcomes in Indonesia …

greatly benefit from the technical sophistication used to estimate the returns to schooling for employees by means of twins …This paper provides a meta-analytical review of empirical studies into the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship … to a marginal year of schooling in terms of the income it generates is 6.1 percent in the U.S.A. Fourth, the effect of …

developed host country only when the host country obtains a threshold level of secondary schooling. Borensztein et al. (Journal … quantity and the quality of education. We adjust the original schooling data in Borensztein et al. (Journal of International … between inward FDI and schooling still exists, but the threshold level of schooling in our study is lower than the threshold …

different margins of adjustment across the income distribution can be rationalized by a model in which preferences for schooling …

occupational segregation, gender wage inequality, female business leadership and public childcare support) interact with individual …-level perceptions in ways that increase women's start-up across thirteen countries. Results suggest that gender wage inequality has a … decision to start a business indirectly through perceptions and gender. …