substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity - women and immigrants … substantially more financially rewarding option for most women. These findings raise the question of why low-skilled women enter … options and limited labor market opportunities in the wage/salary sector as motivating native born women to enter self …

Despite a steady increase in the number of self-employed women, the so-called gender gap has hardly diminished. Based …-induced employment breaks - which from a theoretical perspective go along with a loss of human capital - explain women's lower start …

The aim of this paper is to analyse how female migrants fare in the Spanish labour market, a country that has … experienced impressive immigration flows during the last decade. Particularly, we explore the differential access to employment … migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …

This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …

evaluations which are restricted to microfinance clients, we consider two more representative groups: a random sample of women … operating subsistence enterprises, and a random sample of women who are out of the labor force but interested in starting a … of follow-up surveys taken over two years and find that the short- and medium-term impacts differ. For women already in …

systematically assess the conditions for successful entrepreneurship of migrants. …Nowadays, migrants form a significant share of the urban population, and their business is critical for urban economic … competitive urban environment, this study will investigate the entrepreneurial behaviour of migrants in Dutch cities from a micro …