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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503391
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Pandemic depression : COVID-19 and the mental health of the self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health,...
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Foreign-born status, gender, and Hispanic business ownership across U.S. Metropolitan labor markets : a multilevel approach
Wang, Qingfang - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 29 (2015) 4, pp. 328-340
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Perceived desirability, feasibility, and social norms as antecedents on hospitality students' entrepreneurial intention in Malysia : does gender make a difference?
Muhamad Nizam Saadin; Daskin, Mustafa - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small business 25 (2015) 4, pp. 456-474
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Impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021
This study estimates random effects and difference-in-difference-in-differences models to examine the initial impacts of COVID-19 on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using monthly panel data from the Current Population Survey. For these workers, effects were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012513763
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Self-employment and unemployment relationship in Romania : insights by age, education and gender
Grigorescu, Adriana; Pîrciog, Speranta; Lincaru, Cristina - In: Economic research 33 (2020) 1,3, pp. 2462-2487
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013192551
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Differential initial impacts of COVID-19 on the employment and hours of the self-employed
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496746