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-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family …
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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 …
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across 78 economies, utilizing the Female Entrepreneurship Index (FEI) and the Male Entrepreneurship Index (MEI). By … disparities in entrepreneurship or if they primarily benefit one gender. Findings indicate a positive effect of digitalization on … advantage. Conversely, in contexts where female entrepreneurship dominates, digitalization does not significantly impact the MEI …
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entrepreneurship and improves the allocation of talent in the economy. Using population-wide registry data from Denmark, we exploit …; (iii) increased consideration of entrepreneurship as a potential career. Together these results challenge the view that the …
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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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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. …
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gender gap in entrepreneurship, finding that the family may serve as a stronger influence than society when implied norms of …
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Starting from the significant role played by entrepreneurship in the economy and also from the pressing problem of … gender inequality, in this paper we aim to analyse the link between entrepreneurship and economic development, with emphasis … on the mediating role of gender and motivations of entrepreneurs. We apply panel data regression models on a sample of 53 …
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longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …
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