Does gender matter for firm performance ? evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
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- Shwetlena Sabarwal & Katherine Terrell, 2016. "Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia," Working Papers id:8461, eSocialSciences.
- Sabarwal, Shwetlena & Terrell, Katherine, 2008. "Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia," IZA Discussion Papers 3758, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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Keywords
Access to Finance; Banks&Banking Reform; Gender and Health; Gender and Law;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- M21 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - Business Economics
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EFF-2008-09-13 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-ENT-2008-09-13 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-LAB-2008-09-13 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-TRA-2008-09-13 (Transition Economics)
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