one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large …, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice … models and employing decomposition techniques, we find that gender differences in socio-demographics alone would even be in …

Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? Women have both to a lower entry rate into selfemployment and a higher exit rate … in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …-employment and dependent employment are estimated separately by gender, accounting for non-random selection into the employment …

This paper studies gender discrimination against entrepreneurs by financial institutions. Based on the Business … compared with male-managed counterparts. In addition, there is some evidence that female entrepreneurs are charged higher …

-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly … that while both male and female entrepreneurs in ECA are sub-optimally small, women's returns to scale are significantly …

entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …-directed 'opportunity' entrepreneurship is more strongly associated with higher educational attainment. Those joining family businesses …

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 …, on female labor force participation, and on female entrepreneurship. To test hypotheses we make use of Global …

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 … to the motivation for starting up a business, the propensity to take risk and the availability of other income …

earnings of Hispanic female entrepreneurs to both Latina wage/salary workers and to self-employed female non-Hispanic whites …. Latina entrepreneurs are observed to have lower mean earnings than both white female entrepreneurs and Latina employees …. However, our findings indicate that Latina entrepreneurs often do well, once differences in mean observable characteristics …