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Cultures of Female Entrepreneurship
foreman-peck, james s.; Zhou, Peng - Economics Section, Cardiff Business School - 2014
testable hypotheses about the gender effects of entrepreneurial culture. The principal hypothesis is that there is a greater … different entrepreneurial cultures show greater similarity of behaviour (lower variance) than men. But proportionate gender gaps …
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Ethnicity and Gender in the Labour Market in Central and South East Europe
O'Higgins, Niall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
outcomes in the labour market than non-Roma women, in most CSEE countries the gender wage gap is significantly larger amongst … Roma compared to non-Roma. This paper seeks to analyze and explain differences in the gender gap in the wages amongst Roma …. The paper employs a non-parametric matching approach to identify the main factors underlying the gender wage gap …
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Discriminación en el Perú: Exploraciones en el Estado, la empresa y el mercado laboral.
Galarza, Francisco (contributor) - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del …
Hay dos temas transversales que se abordan en este volumen; uno es la exclusión, definida como la restricción de la posibilidad de acceso a algún servicio, bien público u oportunidad, entendida esta en el sentido amplio. La segunda es la discriminación, entendida como el trato desigual,...
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The effects of private equity and venture capital on sales and employment growth in small and medium-sized businesses
Paglia, John K.; Harjoto, Maretno A. - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 47 (2014) C, pp. 177-197
We study the effects private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) financing have on small and mid-sized single entity business establishments from 1995 to 2009. We focus on single entity establishments to cleanly examine the impact of PE and VC financing on establishments’ organic growth. This...
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Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country
Arceo-Gomez, Eva O.; Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M. - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 5, pp. 376-80
In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial biases in the labor market using official statistics since race can only be...
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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen: Proclivity and Performance
Constant, Amelie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...
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The earnings of self-employed Mexican Americans along the U.S.-Mexico border
Flota, Chrystell; Mora, Marie T. - In: The Annals of Regional Science 35 (2001) 3, pp. 483-499
We utilize data from the 1990 1% Public Use Microdata Sample to analyze the earnings and occupational status of self-employed Mexican Americans in the five major U.S.-Mexico border metropolitan statistical areas (Brownsville, El Paso, Laredo, and McAllen in Texas, and San Diego, California)...
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The Labor Market Effects of Sex and Race Discrimination Laws
Neumark, David; Stock, Wendy A. - In: Economic Inquiry 44 (2006) 3, pp. 385-419
We study the effects of state sex and race discrimination laws that were passed prior to federal antidiscrimination legislation. State sex discrimination laws targeted discrimination in pay only. Because an equal pay constraint raises the relative price of female labor, we would expect the...
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Evidence on Discrimination in Employment: Codes of Color, Codes of Gender
Darity, William A.; Mason, Patrick L. - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (1998) 2, pp. 63-90
There is substantial racial and gender disparity in the American economy. As we will demonstrate, discriminatory … for the remaining gender inequality? What is the role of the competitive process in elimination or reproduction of … at the outset, discrimination by race has diminished somewhat, and discrimination by gender has diminished substantially …
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The Evolution of Occupational Segregation in the U.S., 1940-2010: The Gains and Losses of Gender-Race/Ethnicity Groups
Rio, Coral del; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014
only for academics but also for institutions concerned with inequalities related to gender, race, ethnicity, and migration …
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