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Whether policy support should be designed differently for women entrepreneurs is a particularly relevant question. To … answer this, and to inform the design of policies to provide appropriate support for women entrepreneurs, the paper compares … of women. Based on a survey of 50 men and 50 women entrepreneurs in the regions of Sfax, Sousse and Tunis, our results …
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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since the start of the Great Recession. In this paper, we re-examine the impact of liquidity constraints on new business formation in an instrumental variables framework, using a...
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Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start-up decision and can explain the gender gap in...
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/informal sector. These new establishments were concentrated in industries where women entrepreneurs have been traditionally active and … heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …
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embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … business sizes. We also highlight the agency of women entrepreneurs in influencing their spatial-institutional contexts. …
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Women entrepreneurs are known not only to reimburse loans swifter than men, but also to receive smaller loans. However …
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employees towards becoming entrepreneurs: exit from the current firm and entry into entrepreneurship. In other words, we study …
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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since the start of the Great Recession. In this paper, we re-examine the impact of liquidity constraints on new business formation in an instrumental variables framework, using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023768
from an angel investor is independent of the entrepreneurs' gender and initial asking valuation. However, consistent with …
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This study was driven by an initial finding that female founders’ participation rates in Israeli accelerators are significantly higher (15.3%) than their participation rate in the Israeli startup sector (7.4%). Linking accelerators’ design to the known barriers for female entrepreneurship,...
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