Do different factors explain male and female self-employment rates?

By George Saridakis, S. Marlow, D. Storey. 2014

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This article challenges the assumption that the factors associated with the self-employment choices of women differ from those of men; specifically, we test the extent to which women are influenced by standard economic factors compared with family and social issues. We find that economic factors influence the self-employment choices made by men and by women in the long and short-run. Although some findings were sensitive to the chosen self-employment measure our short-run findings, in particular, are at variance with the interpretation that self-employed women are less likely to be influenced by economic factors than their male counterparts. Consequently, we argue that gender-based explanations have exaggerated the importance of social factors in the self-employment choices made by women.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Failure or voluntary exit? Reassessing the female underperformance hypothesis (2015, background): “Our ﬁ ndings that family issues are important to males when making a decision about exiting for other professional/ ﬁ nancial opportunities is also supported by the work of Saridakis et al. (2014) who ﬁ nd that fertility rates have a negative effect on male self-employment.”