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 … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …

-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family …

longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …

individuals' entry into rural non-farm micro-entrepreneurship focusing on gender issue. Based on primary data collected in Assam … income opportunities for female and thus female entrepreneurship. Despite an increase in the female entrepreneurship in … micro-entrepreneurship development. The influence of educational attainment is not found significant for female …

-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family …

longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …

-employed were more strongly hit than their male counterparts. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey data where …

data in which respondents were asked about their situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings indicate that among …

-employed were more strongly hit than their male counterparts. For our analysis, we use representative real-time survey data in which …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … formation in an instrumental variables framework, using a previously unexplored data set from the UK. The new results indicate … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …