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Women's Entrepreneurship: How to Measure the Gap between New Female and Male Entrepreneurs?

dc.contributor.author Meunier, Frederic
dc.contributor.author Krylova, Yulia
dc.contributor.author Ramalho, Rita
dc.date.accessioned 2017-11-30T20:00:08Z
dc.date.available 2017-11-30T20:00:08Z
dc.date.issued 2017-11
dc.description.abstract This paper analyzes data on female and male entrepreneurship that were collected by the World Bank Group's Entrepreneurship Database. Recognizing the importance of a differentiated approach to entrepreneurship in terms of legal entities, the data on female and male business owners are collected at the level of limited liability companies and sole proprietorships. Forty-four of the 143 economies that participated in the Entrepreneurship project provided some sex-disaggregated data for 2016. The paper finds that the gender gap in business ownership remains high in many economies around the world. In the majority of the analyzed economies, less than one-third of new limited liability company owners are women. Although sole proprietorships are more frequently used by female entrepreneurs, only three economies have similar or equal number of women business owners relative to men. The gap in female entrepreneurship is especially apparent in low-income economies, where women are much less likely than men to start a new business. The paper also provides new insights into the relationship between female entrepreneurship and various institutional factors, including women's financial inclusion, the gender gap in education, and legal rights disparities. The analysis suggests a need to expand the collection of sex-disaggregated data, to trace the economies' progress in narrowing the existing gender gap in entrepreneurship. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/704231510669093889/Womens-entrepreneurship-how-to-measure-the-gap-between-new-female-and-male-entrepreneurs
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28902
dc.language English
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8242
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
dc.subject ENTREPRENEURSHIP
dc.subject GENDER GAP
dc.subject BUSINESS OWNERSHIP
dc.title Women's Entrepreneurship en
dc.title.subtitle How to Measure the Gap between New Female and Male Entrepreneurs? en
dc.type Working Paper en
dc.type Document de travail fr
dc.type Documento de trabajo es
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.crossref.title Women's Entrepreneurship: How to Measure the Gap between New Female and Male Entrepreneurs?
okr.date.disclosure 2017-11-14
okr.doctype Publications & Research
okr.doctype Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/704231510669093889/Womens-entrepreneurship-how-to-measure-the-gap-between-new-female-and-male-entrepreneurs
okr.identifier.doi 10.1596/1813-9450-8242
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 090224b0853177d7_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 28156842
okr.identifier.report WPS8242
okr.imported true en
okr.language.supported en
okr.pdfurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/704231510669093889/pdf/WPS8242.pdf en
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okr.statistics.dr 704231510669093889
okr.statistics.drstats 5724
okr.topic Gender :: Gender and Economic Policy
okr.topic Gender :: Gender and Economics
okr.topic Gender :: Gender and Poverty
okr.topic Private Sector Development :: Corporate Governance
okr.topic Private Sector Development :: Enterprise Development & Reform
okr.unit Global Indicators Group, Development Economics
relation.isSeriesOfPublication 26e071dc-b0bf-409c-b982-df2970295c87
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