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Do Credit Market Barriers Exist for Minority and Woman Entrepreneurs?
Blanchard, Lloyd A. - 2011
This paper examines whether methodological deficiencies in the literature on discrimination in small business credit markets have a significant impact on the estimation of discrimination and provides a preliminary investigation into the causes of discrimination in these markets. We find...
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The Impact of Financial Capital on Business Performance : A Comparison of Women- and Men-Owned Firms
Robb, Alicia - 2010
with prior research, women-owned firms start with smaller amounts of capital than men-owned firms. Our findings also … indicate that women launched their firms with larger amounts of owner-provided equity and dramatically smaller amounts of … outsider equity. Finally, our results reveal that, even controlling for firm size and the amount of capital at start-up, women …
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Small Business Owner Race, Liquidity, and Survival
Farrell, Diana - 2020
The contributions of the small businesses sector to the U.S. economy are often noted in periods of economic growth, and the fragility of the sector is a core focus of policy in an economic downturn. The sector is important not only because of its contributions to job growth, real economic...
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Bridging the Gap Between Migrants and the Banking System
Albareto, Giorgio - 2011
In this paper, we test whether micro firms run by migrants pay more for credit than firms run by natives and whether the differences in the cost of credit for these two groups of entrepreneurs decrease as the informational and cultural gaps narrow. We employ a large and unique data set providing...
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Understanding the motivating factors for women entrepreneurs : empirical insights from Indian micro enterprises
Bhargava, Sheela; Rana, Rachita - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small … 49 (2023) 2, pp. 287-305
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Die Bedeutung von Ausländern für das Handwerk
Müller, Klaus - 2004
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Die Bedeutung von Ausländern für das Handwerk
Müller, Klaus - 2004
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Small and medium-sized enterprises in global markets : a differential approach for services?
Lejárraga, Iza; Rizzo, Humberto L.; Oberhofer, Harald; … - 2014
This study empirically investigates key restrictions to the internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in manufacturing and across different types of services. The study explores the extent to which binding constraints faced by SMEs producing goods may differ from small...
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Women entrepreneurship in small service firms : motivations, barriers and performance
Akehurst, Gary; Simarro, Enrique; Mas-Tur, Alicia - In: The service industries journal 32 (2012) 15, pp. 2489-2505
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