A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender … entrepreneurs have markedly different psyche than others (8 out of 14 traits differ). However gender differences in traits do not …

This paper explored Slovenian entrepreneurs’ personal characteristics to understand the existing gender gap in …). The research operationalized entrepreneurs’ characteristics according to psychological and non-psychological motivation … factors; the former resulted in four types of Slovenian entrepreneurs while the latter was divided into human and social …

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 …