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In 2010 187 million out of 400 million entrepreneurs were women in the world (GEM, 2012); this number grew so rapidly by the end of the eighties that Brush and Cooper (2012) define female-owned businesses as one of the fastest growing entrepreneurial populations in the world. Due to the...
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Several analyses report a positive correlation between fertility and female self-employment; however, scholars disagree about the direction of this relationship. Knowing about the causal relationship is important because the relevant mechanisms and possible implications differ tremendously. This...
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We undertake the first research to move analysis beyond estimating the propensity for a person to become an informal investor and onto the core concern which is the total volume of venture finance. We find that a 1 % increase in entrepreneurial activity increases the number of informal...
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effectiveness of entrepreneurial training with an analysis that links training and human capital, including tertiary education and … literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … complements, tertiary education can act as a channel that makes training effective. Regarding non-cognitive skills, evidence shows …
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