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? (2) What are their criteria for hiring new staff? and (3) how do women entrepreneurs train their staff …Objective - Women play a significant role in Malaysian economic development. FELCRA is a corporate organization wholly … owned by the Malaysian government agency entrusted with the initiative to increase the participation of women in the socio …
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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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This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …
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, self-employment and entrepreneurship plays an important role, and in particular new venture creation by women. This chapter … aims to provide a snapshot on female entrepreneurship in Germany, with a focus on female immigrant entrepreneurship. We … analyze female immigrant entrepreneurship against its historical background as well as in the light of the recent ‘European …
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also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …
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also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …
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that, after the Reunification, entrepreneurship is higher among the residents of East German regions with West TV signal …
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compatible with the free-market economy principles and supportive of entrepreneurship. We show that during the 40 years of … socialistic regime in East Germany entrepreneurship was highly regulated and virtually impossible and that the prevalent formal … and informal institutions broke the traditional ties linking entrepreneurship to the characteristics of individuals so …
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entrepreneurs in the early-stage entrepreneurship arena. … inhabitants are taken into account, some regions have persistently higher entrepreneurship rates than others. Proposed … effects. Regional differences in entrepreneurship have also been linked to the availability of role models (Fornahl 2003 …
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entrepreneurship among movers. The first dataset consists of 1,248, U.S. lawyers who were forced to seek alternative employment after …
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