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Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
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This paper empirically examines firm owners' gender difference in labor demand. We estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) of female ownership on employment of the firm using the 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS), provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Because...
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Objective: This study aims to provide a deeper understanding of the connection between grit and its impact on female entrepreneurs. Research Design & Methods: A qualitative research study was conducted among female entrepreneurs from different industries and life stages. The theoretical...
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Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses...
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Using unique survey data from Georgia, Mongolia, and the Philippines, we examine gender gaps in entrepreneurship. The … overall incidence of entrepreneurship is highest in Cavite, Philippines, while the gender gap in ownership is highest in …
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How can policymakers promote women-led exporting firms? In this paper, we study the role of online business platforms to reduce informational barriers to exporting for women entrepreneurs. We hypothesize that, if the costs associated with accessing digital platforms are more symmetric across...
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The underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship is consistent over cultures and countries, and is even higher in … small, indicating that children are no barrier to entrepreneurship, at least not when defined as self-employment as in this …
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and exposes those, that are statistically significant. Since women remain an unexploited source of entrepreneurship …, establishing effective mechanisms for the promotion of female entrepreneurship should become an important issue in Slovenian … society. The paper concludes with policy and program suggestions for the support of female entrepreneurship. …
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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 …
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Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …
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