This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in … attention to unique issues that arise with female entrepreneurship. …

A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …

-employment after childbirth. For our estimations we use comprehensive panel data for German adults born between 1944 and 1989. We find …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … formation in an instrumental variables framework, using a previously unexplored data set from the UK. The new results indicate … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …

context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …

female empowerment is female entrepreneurship; however, the literature on the emergence of female entrepreneurship is scarce …. We focus on the rise of female entrepreneurship in Serbia and collect an extensive biographical dataset of women, who …

This policy brief on women in entrepreneurship was produced by the OECD and the European Commission. It explores the … gender gap in entrepreneurship, the differences between male- and female-owned businesses, and the unique challenges that … produced by the OECD and the European Commission on inclusive entrepreneurship. The series includes policy briefs on youth …

male and female perceptions of typical entrepreneurship support services, such as government provision of information … suggest that existing support services are inadequate for promoting female entrepreneurship. Accordingly we discuss support … measures specifically designed for women entrepreneurs. -- entrepreneurship ; gender ; women entrepreneurs ; Africa …