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Microentrepreneurs' gender difference in labor demand
Oladipo, Oluwasheyi; Shim, Hyoung Suk - 2022
This paper empirically examines firm owners' gender difference in labor demand. We estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) of female ownership on employment of the firm using the 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS), provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Because...
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Changing returns to education during a boom? : the case of Ireland
McGuinness, Séamus (contributor);  … - 2008
Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” years saw GDP per capita rise from 60% of the EU average to 120% of the average over the course of the 1990s, with a growth in employment of about 40% over the period 1994-2001. What were the consequences of the boom for returns to education and wage inequality?...
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510506
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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...
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The long run gender origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from Australia's convict history
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Chang, Simon; Smyth, Russell; … - 2024
This paper extends prior theory linking present-day sex ratios to present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men … backward in time to explore the long-run gender origins of entrepreneurship. We argue that present-day propensity for … entrepreneurship among men will be higher in neighbourhoods which had historically high sex ratios. We propose that high sex ratios …
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The Rise of Female Entrepreneurs : New Evidence on Gender Differences in Liquidity Constraints
Sauer, Robert M. - 2015
Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023768
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The gender gap in entrepreneurship : not just a matter of personality
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354771
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Dependence or constraints? Labor supply responses from a cash transfer program
Vera Cossio, Diego Alejandro - 2019
-age children: Cash transfers may relax liquidity constraints and boost entrepreneurship, and also relieve overworked adults. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534428
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Dependence or constraints? : labor supply responses from a cash transfer program
Vera Cossío, Diego Alejandro - 2019
-age children: Cash transfers may relax liquidity constraints and boost entrepreneurship, and also relieve overworked adults. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154758
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Brain versus Brawn : The Realization of Women's Comparative Advantage
Rendall, Michelle - 2017
In the last decades the US economy experienced a rise in female labor force participation, a reversal of the gender education gap and a closing of the gender wage gap. Importantly, these changes occurred at a substantially different pace over time. During the same period, workers in the US faced...
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