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 …

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …

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 …

both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal …This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new … hypotheses; that women are less likely to undertake entrepreneurial activity in countries where the rule of law is weaker; where …

This paper investigates time allocation decisions in new ventures of female and male entrepreneurs using a new model … of working hours. Using data of 1203 entrepreneurs we find that the preference for work time in new ventures is related … profit effects one year after start-up. With respect to gender we find that on average women invest less time in the business …

Entrepreneurship Monitor data, including total entrepreneurial activity rates for both women and men for 2002, as well as a range of …The present study aims at explaining female and male entrepreneurship from a country perspective. Explanatory variables … are derived from three streams of literature, including the literature on the determinants of entrepreneurship in general …

This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less …

female entrepreneurs and that women would actually benefit from policy reforms with larger pay-offs. Building upon the … argument that there is more to female entrepreneurship than regulation alone, this two-year study examines the interaction … between business regulation and local tradition when women do business. Funded by the Danish International Development Agency …