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embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography … context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in …
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Is there a mindset gap holding women back in business? Can entrepreneurship training instill a set of attitudes … therefore may have a better understanding of the entrepreneurs' specific challenges. The study concludes that psychological …
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We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the … gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of …
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This paper empirically examines firm owners' gender difference in labor demand. We estimate the average treatment …
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Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they … entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses on interventions designed to address four areas of constraints that … technology and markets, and contextual factors such as legal and regulatory constraints, social norms, access to care, and gender …
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Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...
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entrepreneurs. A wide range of support measures were designed to mitigate their consequences. This paper traces the economic …, first answers will be given to the question whether women entrepreneurs and the businesses they run are particularly …
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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …
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