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This paper examines the relationship between gender, social capital, and access to finance of micro, small, and medium … provide evidence for discrimination against female-owned enterprises in the formal lending market. Specifically, female …. No discrimination in formal credit markets may arise from the preference for informal loans over formal loans - that is …
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This paper examines the relationship between gender, social capital, and access to finance of micro, small, and medium … provide evidence for discrimination against female-owned enterprises in the formal lending market. Specifically, female …. No discrimination in formal credit markets may arise from the preference for informal loans over formal loans - that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688562
This paper studies gender discrimination against entrepreneurs by financial institutions. Based on the Business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068937
This study analyzes differences by gender in the ownership of privately held U.S. firms and examines the role of gender … the differences by gender, we find that female-owned firms are 1) significantly smaller, as measured by sales, assets, and …
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seem to assume that women invariably play second fiddle in the mixed-gender firms. We also show that discrimination between … rate payments than male-only firms; differences that we can attribute to taste-based discrimination. In contrast, if the … manager and the owner have a different gender, we find no such differences with male-only firms. Hence, interestingly banks …
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This paper studies gender discrimination against entrepreneurs by financial institutions. Based on the Business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265690
amongst clients of MFIs. We also demonstrate that the gender criterion is a decisive factor of the amount of the microcredit … when compared to the borrower and firm profile. To a certain extent, MFI thus reproduce gender inequalities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604227
We analyze gender discrimination in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success … entrepreneurial teams. In a lab-in-the-field experiment with Ugandan loan officers, we document gender discrimination of individual … female entrepreneurs, but no gender bias in the evaluation of entrepreneurial teams. Our results suggest that the observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477359
We analyze gender discrimination in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success … entrepreneurial teams. In a lab-in-the-field experiment with Ugandan loan officers, we document gender discrimination of individual … female entrepreneurs, but no gender bias in the evaluation of entrepreneurial teams. Our results suggest that the observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014388597
We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female …
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