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 …

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 …

Selbständigen als Freiberufler und Unternehmer sowie den abhängig Beschäftigten. Neu sind unsere ersten Längsschnittergebnisse aus …: Die Einkommen der Selbständigen fluktuieren stark für Unternehmer (Gewerbetreibende) nicht aber für Freie Berufe … Statistics and focus on top incomes for important labour market groups: the self-employed (as freelancers and entrepreneurs) and …

and redistributional impacts on the self employed (professions (free lancers) and entrepreneurs) and employees besides … Unternehmer) und anderen sozioökonomischen Gruppen (z.B. unterschieden nach Geschlecht, Familientypus etc.) untersucht. Zusätzlich …

Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self …

-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self …

monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to women working fewer hours than men. In contrast variables like family … that self-employed women do not earn less because they are seeking work-family balance rather than profits. Differences in …

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 …

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 …