dc.contributor.author | Rønsen, Marit | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Norway | nb_NO |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-13T07:34:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-11-13T07:34:22Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-12 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0809-733X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2628016 | |
dc.description.abstract | The underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship is consistent over cultures and countries, and is even higher in Norway than in most other industrialised societies. In spite of a growing literature, the reasons for this pattern are still not well understood. In this paper I explore an area that has been little researched so far, the family and household situation. I study the presence of children and their ages, the role of the partner’s characteristics and the household’s financial resources. The results show that women are more likely to choose self-employment over wage-work when the children are small, indicating that children are no barrier to entrepreneurship, at least not when defined as self-employment as in this paper. The self-employment propensity of both women and men are negatively related to their partner’s working hours and positively related to him (or her) being self-employed himself (herself). The causal direction of these relationships cannot be established in the present analysis and needs to be investigated closer in future research. | nb_NO |
dc.description.sponsorship | Research Council of Norway (“Entrepreneurship in Norway: Dynamics, barriers and outcomes”) | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.publisher | Statistisk sentralbyrå | nb_NO |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Discussion papers;727 | |
dc.subject | JEL classification: L26 | nb_NO |
dc.subject | JEL classification: J13 | nb_NO |
dc.subject | JEL classification: J16 | nb_NO |
dc.subject | JEL classification: J22 | nb_NO |
dc.title | The family – a barrier or motivation for female entrepreneurship? | nb_NO |
dc.type | Working paper | nb_NO |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | nb_NO |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Matematikk: 410::Statistikk: 412 | nb_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 32 | nb_NO |