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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 …
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multiyear collaborative study in order to deepen the main features of female entrepreneurship, with a specific interest in the … female entrepreneurship research, covering 191 articles published between 2000 and 2012 in both business & management and … sociological journals. Results show that the interest of academic literature in female entrepreneurship increases on average from …
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This paper analyzes gender differences in the investment activity of German small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The empirical analysis is carried out on a sample of firms drawn from the KfW Mittelstandspanel, a representative survey of German SMEs for the period from 2003 to 2009. We find...
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This paper provides the first evidence on gender differences in investment financing, credit application and credit denial rates in Germany. The empirical analysis is carried out on a sample of firms drawn from the KfW Mittelstandspanel, a representative survey of German SMEs for the period from...
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This study examines the barriers to female entrepreneurship in India's microenterprise sector through society and … bureaucracy. The study uses grammatical genders in languages to capture the societal attitudes towards female entrepreneurship …., which affects female entrepreneurship. The paper finds empirical evidence for the grease-the-wheel hypothesis, i.e., in the …
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Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …
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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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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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entrepreneurship. Data on Uganda show that women breaking into male-dominated sectors make as much as men, and three times more than …
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This paper investigates whether the female self-employed are more affected by the COVID-19 crisis than the male self-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family/social, economic and psychological factors on...
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