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female empowerment is female entrepreneurship; however, the literature on the emergence of female entrepreneurship is scarce …. We focus on the rise of female entrepreneurship in Serbia and collect an extensive biographical dataset of women, who …
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Building on the theory of necessity entrepreneurship, we test whether female entrepreneurship was a part of the … entrepreneurial activity at the household level, acts as a catalyst for such female necessity entrepreneurship. Overall, the findings … suggest that crisis perhaps worked as a contextual factor contributing to the creation of necessary entrepreneurship among …
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This paper analyzes gender differences in the investment activity of German small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The empirical analysis is carried out on a sample of firms drawn from the KfW Mittelstandspanel, a representative survey of German SMEs for the period from 2003 to 2009. We find...
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This paper provides the first evidence on gender differences in investment financing, credit application and credit denial rates in Germany. The empirical analysis is carried out on a sample of firms drawn from the KfW Mittelstandspanel, a representative survey of German SMEs for the period from...
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This study examines the barriers to female entrepreneurship in India's microenterprise sector through society and … bureaucracy. The study uses grammatical genders in languages to capture the societal attitudes towards female entrepreneurship …., which affects female entrepreneurship. The paper finds empirical evidence for the grease-the-wheel hypothesis, i.e., in the …
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This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in … attention to unique issues that arise with female entrepreneurship. …
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Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …
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This policy brief examines the phenomenon of home-based entrepreneurship. It provides information on the types of …-based businesses. This policy brief is part of a series of reports produced by the OECD on inclusive entrepreneurship. The series … includes policy briefs on women’s entrepreneurship, youth entrepreneurship, senior entrepreneurship, access to business start …
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This policy brief assesses the potential of entrepreneurship to be used as a tool for the integration of refugees into … entrepreneurship. The series includes policy briefs on women’s entrepreneurship, youth entrepreneurship, senior entrepreneurship …, access to business start-up finance for inclusive entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship among people with disabilities, as a …
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Research dedicated to entrepreneurship has, from the very beginning, created a gender gap as it was mostly considered … entrepreneurship can or cannot be gendered, using a sample of potential entrepreneurs. Based on the multivariate analysis of variance … the implementation of the existing models in different areas of entrepreneurship research, extending its understanding …
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