Why are there so few female entrepreneurs? An examination of gender differences in entrepreneurship using Norwegian registry data
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Keywords
: Entrepreneurship; gender; work and family; partner's characteristics; probit regression; linked registry data;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENT-2014-12-29 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-LAB-2014-12-29 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2014-12-29 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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