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Different strokes for different folks : entrepreneurs' job satisfaction and the intersection of gender and migration background
Bijedić, Teita; Piper, Alan T. - 2018
economy and its entrepreneurial ecosystems. Relatedly, migrant entrepreneurship is a highly recognized topic within political … discussions as well as within entrepreneurship research. While there is already an impressive body of work regarding the nature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961883
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Pulling Effects in Migrant Entrepreneurship : Does Gender Matter?
Colombelli, Alessandra; Grinza, Elena; Meliciani, Valentina - 2020
In this paper, we examine whether the existing stock of migrant firms induces more new firms of the same co-ethnic group in the same sector and province. We do so by analyzing the number of new firms created each year by country of origin, sector, and province, drawing on administrative data of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014097639
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Immigrant Women and Entrepreneurship: A Study of the Health Care Sector in Sweden, 2002-2006
Korpi, Martin; Hedberg, Charlotta; Pettersson, Katarina - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2013
culturally (defined as country of birth) motivated. While structural factors are significantly related to female entrepreneurship … country of birth. Thus, we conclude that structural disadvantage motives, based on gender rather than ethnicity, dominate over … possible cultural motives for entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818308
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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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Testing the differential impact of COVID-19 on self-employed women and men in the United Kingdom
Reuschke, Darja; Henley, Andrew; Daniel, Elizabeth; … - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012492015
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It's a man's world? : the rise of female entrepreneurship during privatization in Serbia
Ivanović, Vladan; Kufenko, Vadim - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300559
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Disentangling succession and entrepreneurship gender gaps: gender norms, culture, and family
Feldmann, Manuel; Lukes, Martin; Uhlaner, Lorraine - In: Small Business Economics 58 (2020) 2, pp. 997-1013
gender gap in entrepreneurship, finding that the family may serve as a stronger influence than society when implied norms of …
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Entrepreneurs and the search for the American dream
Valdez, Zulema - 2016
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Gender and the availability of credit to privately held firms : evidence from the surveys of small business finances
Cole, Rebel A.; Mehran, Hamid - 2009
control for other firm and owner characteristics. -- Credit ; discrimination ; entrepreneurship ; gender ; SSBF …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003947529
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Gender and the Availability of Credit to Privately Held Firms : Evidence from the Surveys of Small Business Finances
Cole, Rebel A. - 2018
This study analyzes differences by gender in the ownership of privately held U.S. firms and examines the role of gender in the availability of credit. Using data from the nationally representative Surveys of Small Business Finances, which span a period of sixteen years, we document a series of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940483