both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal … hypotheses; that women are less likely to undertake entrepreneurial activity in countries where the rule of law is weaker; where … are more robust and address multicollinearity between the institutional measures. We find that women are less likely to …

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce … barriers to advancement in the workplace faced by women. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all … industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women …

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 …

Women start fewer businesses than men. The start-up rate among women in Germany falls short of males' start-up rate by …, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice … favor of higher start-up rates among women, while the distribution of personality traits is less favorable for business …

migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …

I present a theory on the relationship between educational choice and entrepreneurship in a labour market with … asymmetric information. The model shows that, in a labour market where education is used as a signalling device, an imperfect … relationship between productivity in education and in the labour market can lead to an equilibrium where a fraction of the high …

This paper investigates whether entrepreneurs with technical education are more innovative in high-tech industries than … economists. The main contribution to the literature is in using the type of education as main explanatory variable for innovation … conducted for entrepreneurs with university degree and practical education. The results suggest that education matters for …

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 …