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 …

characterized by different growth regimes in which new firms and entrepreneurship assume different roles and accordingly lead to … durch unterschiedliche Wachstumsregime gekennzeichnet sind in denen Gründungen und Entrepreneurship unterschiedliche Rollen …

characterized by different growth regimes in which new firms and entrepreneurship assume different roles and accordingly lead to … durch unterschiedliche Wachstumsregime gekennzeichnet sind in denen Gründungen und Entrepreneurship unterschiedliche Rollen …

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 …

internationalization process. We contribute to this research stream by establishing theoretical links with the emerging open innovation … with regard to the effect of open innovation strategies on internationalization performance. Our results show that both the …

economists. The main contribution to the literature is in using the type of education as main explanatory variable for innovation … results depend on the underlying definition of innovation, as robustness checks show. …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

firm competitive advantages. This work shows that innovation and product differentiation, along with investments in co …