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

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-8242

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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.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-8242
dc.identifier.uri	https://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
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okr.crossref.title	Women's Entrepreneurship: How to Measure the Gap between New Female and Male Entrepreneurs?
okr.date.disclosure	2017-11-14
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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
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