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This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …
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This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806220
Better access to reproductive healthcare increases women's propensity to become entrepreneurs. Access correlates … income suggests it also improves success of female-led businesses. None of these results hold when tested on men, women above … better reproductive care enable more women to become entrepreneurs. I conclude by discussing various possible channels and …
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Using the British Household Panel Survey, this paper finds that inheritance has a concave effect on the hours worked by male entrepreneurs. Receiving an inheritance increases the labor supply of unemployed male entrepreneurs; however this effect becomes smaller for higher inheritances.
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The underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship is consistent over cultures and countries, and is even higher in …'s financial resources. The results show that women are more likely to choose self-employment over wage-work when the children are … paper. The self-employment propensity of both women and men are negatively related to their partner's working hours and …
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The underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship is consistent over cultures and countries, and is even higher in …’s financial resources. The results show that women are more likely to choose self-employment over wage-work when the children are … paper. The self-employment propensity of both women and men are negatively related to their partner’s working hours and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678298
the importance of empowering women for entrepreneurial roles in rural communities with the aim of achieving national …. The final sample size of 115 was determined through random selection of women operated businesses and this comprises of 57 … interest in setting up a private venture. It was also discovered that education plays an important role in the building of …
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quality, and other explanations are not robustly correlated with the presence of a baby. However, we find that women with … children in the store are more likely to run out of stock than both men and women who do not have children in the store. While …
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This paper explores the relationship between self-employment, partner's employment, the household and children on a mother's and father's probability to choose self-employment. Few studies are available on this topic and their analysis is mainly limited to the female role in the North American...
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Netherlands. We find that the status of occupations is mostly determined by the required level of education, the income level to …, but little power and education. Moreover, we find evidence that individual characteristics, such as entrepreneurship …
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