Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk … aversion among women explains a large share of the entrepreneurial gender gap. We also find an education effect contributing to …

increase by 4.3% without women's restrictions to entrepreneurship and by 32.1% without restrictions to entry and …What are the effects on the labor market and aggregate income of frictions that restrict women's labor decisions that … impede labor participation and composition being equal between men and women? To answer this question, I develop an …

female entrepreneurship phenomenon. Women entrepreneurship needs to be studied as a separate field for two main reasons: (a …: women provide different solutions to management and business issues; (b). Female entrepreneurship has been neglected …). Female entrepreneurship is an important source of economic growth in creating new jobs and by being genetically different …

How are women entrepreneurs transforming and challenging traditional understandings of professional success in the 21st … styles, documenting strategies for success and barriers confronted, indicates that not much has changed. Women entrepreneurs … "distinguished" (Carayannis & Stewart 2013) women entrepreneurs who have made a difference. Is it not time to shed some light on …

This paper proposes a model that, although among the first to explain minority entrepreneurship in a general …. As an application, the proposed model is used to explain the recent increment in entrepreneurship among African Americans …