There is no gender difference between success in establishing a business once both males and females have the same … preference to self-employment and attempts towards establishing a new business. However, the gender gap tends to be huge when it … the role of inequality in individual and country attributes between man and woman in the bridging this gender …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

Though more than 100 countries have adopted gender quotas, the impacts of these reforms on women’s political leadership …

In this paper, we investigate whether gender norms and institutions act as a constraint to the performance of female … controlling for other factors that affect female businesses uniformly across all markets. We provide evidence that gender … inequality and institutional biases against women in trade partner countries play an important role in explaining gender …

In this paper, we investigate whether gender norms and institutions act as a constraint to the performance of female … controlling for other factors that affect female businesses uniformly across all markets. We provide evidence that gender … inequality and institutional biases against women in trade partner countries play an important role in explaining gender …

. Second, I relate the number of hours advertised in online job postings to firms' confidentially reported gender preferences … evidence points to bias due to gender stereotypes. …

whether this depends on the gender of a jobseeker. First, I relate the number of hours stated on job advertisements to the … gender preferences of firms indicated in a confidential online form. Second, I analyze hiring decisions of recruiters who … same position. Hence, the gender differences cannot be explained by differences in job or workplace characteristics …

effect on male wages or the gender wage gap. Finally, labor regulation is associated with women having less say at home and …