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Savings and Accumulation Strategies of Urban Market Women in Harare, Zimbabwe

Chamlee-Wright, Emily - 2014

The literature on female entrepreneurship inWest Africa is vast and still growing. Historical accounts of precolonial West Africa indicate that women played a critical role in the development of market trading in the region, particularly in local and near-distant markets. The literature on...

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Precautionary and entrepreneurial saving : new evidence from German households

Fossen, Frank M.; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2009

The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper...

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Precautionary Savings and the Importance of Business Owners

Hurst, Erik - 2014

business owners and non-business owners the size of precautionary savings with respect to labor income risk is modest and … artificially high estimate of the importance of precautionary savings. Data from the Survey of Consumer Finances further confirms … that precautionary savings account for less than ten percent of total wealth for both business owners and non …

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