start-ups among women and explains about one third of the entire gender difference. Most substantially, men opt for a start …Women start fewer businesses than men. The start-up rate among women in Germany falls short of males' start-up rate by … one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large …

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 …

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 …

profit effects one year after start-up. With respect to gender we find that on average women invest less time in the business …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 …

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 …

. Entrepreneurship consulting should incorporate gender typical concerns and cater to the specific informational requirements of women … how women could be more successfully motivated to become self-employed in the crafts. First of all, traditional gender … tendency of women to start businesses in the service sector, which is underrepresented in the crafts. Women also tend to be …

entrepreneurship combining personal and contextual factors. Empirical results demonstrate that intentions to start a science-based new … research context itself - i.e., normative influences of academic workplace peers - does not show a strong direct effect on … entrepreneurial intentions. Moderator analyses deliver that peers have an influence primarily by person-context interactions via …

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

substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity - women and immigrants … options and limited labor market opportunities in the wage/salary sector as motivating native born women to enter self … labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses, it is particularly important to seek and evaluate their labor market …