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literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … that women entrepreneurs who are tenacious achieve stronger sales performance. Our results underscore the importance of …-cognitive skills, among policies for women entrepreneurs. …
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literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … that women entrepreneurs who are tenacious achieve stronger sales performance. Our results underscore the importance of …-cognitive skills, among policies for women entrepreneurs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140241
Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they … various interventions suggest the need for more precise targeting. The multiple constraints faced by women entrepreneurs … highlights several interventions that show promise in supporting women entrepreneurs, significant gaps remain in the evidence …
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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 … role models for the intention of women to become entrepreneurs as well as them actually doing so. Investigating different …
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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 … business sizes. We also highlight the agency of women entrepreneurs in influencing their spatial-institutional contexts. …
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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 … differences in personality. We show that women have markedly different psyche than men (11 out of 14 traits differ), and that …
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. We focus on the rise of female entrepreneurship in Serbia and collect an extensive biographical dataset of women, who … female empowerment is female entrepreneurship; however, the literature on the emergence of female entrepreneurship is scarce … took part in privatization. Although women enjoyed the same de jure rights as men, they faced a number of informal …
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propensities between men and women. The consequences of the assumed differential importance of household and family generate … chance of females in 'unentrepreneurial' cultures being relatively entrepreneurial compared to males. Also women from …
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We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the … and male entrepreneurs. Only male entrepreneurs seem subject to pressure to redistribute from the distant network. Our … findings are consistent with situations where women working at home would essentially feel negatively the burden of their own …
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This paper discusses the findings of a study conducted in Kampala, Uganda, which evaluated the cultural dynamics at … fast losing its relevance. Men and women equally require appropriate enablers for them to start up and develop and grow …
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