Gender differences in business performance: Evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey

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Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses, making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work experience, and financial capital play in contributing to why female-owned businesses have lower survival rates, profits, employment and sales. We find that female-owned businesses are less successful than male-owned businesses because they have less startup capital, less business human capital acquired through prior work experience in a similar business, and less prior work experience in a family business. We also find some evidence that female business owners work fewer hours and may have different preferences for the goals of their businesses, which may have implications for business outcomes.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 652

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Entrepreneurship
• Thema: female entrepreneurship ; business outcomes ; Weibliche Führungskräfte ; Entrepreneurship-Ansatz ; Unternehmenserfolg ; Berufserfahrung ; Risikokapital ; Vergleich ; Männer ; USA

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Fairlie, Robert W. ; Robb, Alicia M.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of California, Economics Department
• (wo): Santa Cruz, CA
• (wann): 2009

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/64533
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ