Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …

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 …

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 …

gender gap in entrepreneurship, finding that the family may serve as a stronger influence than society when implied norms of …

Entrepreneurship is an important economic source for any country. However, the share of female entrepreneurs is still … findings in the (women) entrepreneurship literature, we build on social learning theory (Bandura 1973) and argue that role … models' promotion of entrepreneurship, we distinguish different types of role models. We hypothesize that different role …

, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …. -- Entrepreneurship ; gender difference ; start-up propensity ; decomposition analysis ; KfW Start-up Monitor ; Germany …

In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship. …