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Avoiding the housewife stigma : self-employment as a female career choice
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2018
This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top of the income distribution are more likely to enter self-employment, which is also associated with a lower income. This can be interpreted as a career choice that produces a...
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Entrepreneurial Business Practices Among FELCRA's Women Entrepreneurs
Mansor, Ahmad Zamri; Othman, Norasmah; Zaman, Mohd … - 2020
Objective - Women play a significant role in Malaysian economic development. FELCRA is a corporate organization wholly owned by the Malaysian government agency entrusted with the initiative to increase the participation of women in the socio-economic sector. This study aims to explore this issue...
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Social Norms and Gendered Occupational Choices of Men and Women : Time to Turn the Tide?
Palffy, Patricia; Lehnert, Patrick; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022
We analyze the relationship between social gender norms and adolescents' occupational choices by combining regional votes on constitutional amendments on gender equality with job application data from a large job board for apprenticeships. Results show that adolescent males in regions with...
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Family-related employment interruptions and self-employment of women : does policy matter?
Suprinovič, Olga; Schneck, Stefan; Kay, Rosemarie - 2015
This paper analyzes how statutory entitlements to maternity or parental leave affect female entry into self-employment after childbirth. For our estimations we use comprehensive panel data for German adults born between 1944 and 1989. We find that utilization of statutory parental leave...
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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 …
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The rise of female entrepreneurs : new evidence on gender differences in liquidity constraints
Sauer, Robert M.; Wilson, Tanya - 2015
Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …
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The gendering of entrepreneurship context
Welter, Friederike; Brush, Candida G.; De Bruin, Anne - 2014
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 …
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Financial strategies for long-term success in women-owned small businesses
Dyer, Melissa Renee - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 23 (2021) 1, pp. 1-16
Failure of small businesses many times is because of poor implementation of long-term financial strategies. Women small business owners face many challenges in financing their small businesses because they may not have a financial plan. Interviews with 11 women small business owners in Cleveland...
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Enhancing women's engagement in entrepreneurial business activities
Ristovska, Natasha; Blazheska, Daliborka - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 11 (2020) 2, pp. 213-230
entrepreneurship varies in different parts of the world depending on the economic development of the region. However, the engagement of … entrepreneurship. …
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Women's self-employment intentions after global shocks : insights from Egypt and Spain
Zabala, Alaitz; Ghalwash, Seham; Ismail, Ayman; … - In: European journal of international management : EJIM 20 (2023) 1, pp. 124-142
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