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Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Germany
Audretsch, David B. - 2017
, self-employment and entrepreneurship plays an important role, and in particular new venture creation by women. This chapter … aims to provide a snapshot on female entrepreneurship in Germany, with a focus on female immigrant entrepreneurship. We … analyze female immigrant entrepreneurship against its historical background as well as in the light of the recent ‘European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944787
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262556
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Can vocational education improve the wages of minorities and disadvantaged groups? : the case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403357
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Women's Opportunities and Challenges in Sub-Saharan African Job Markets
Dieterich, Christine - 2016
As labor market data is scarce in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), this paper uses household survey data to analyze the determinants of the gender gap in the labor market and its welfare implications for five SSA countries in multinomial logit models with propensity score matching method. The analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977837
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Climate shocks, migration, and labor markets : a gender analysis from West Africa
El-Mallakh, Nelly; Wodon, Quentin - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of shocks, predominantly climate shocks, on labor market outcomes in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). We focus on migration ows within the WAEMU countries to disentangle the differential effects of shocks on migrants and non-migrants. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648528
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2021
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320832
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Can vocational education improve the wages of minorities and disadvantaged groups? : The case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001630251
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Do women have a less entrepreneurial personality?
Bengtsson, Ola; Sanandaji, Tino; Johannesson, Magnus - 2012
A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …-entrepreneurial self-employed. This finding highlights that entrepreneurship is distinct from other types of self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737923
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Female solo self-employment : features of gendered entrepreneurship
Bögenhold, Dieter; Klinglmair, Andrea - In: International review of entrepreneurship : IRE 13 (2015) 1, pp. 47-58
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662846
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Bios, mythoi and women entrepreneurs : a Wynterian analysis of the intersectional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed women and women-owned businesses
Dy, Angela Martinez; Jayawarna, Dilani - In: International small business journal : ISBJ 38 (2020) 5, pp. 391-403
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012309563