Why women earn less than men in self-employment

By G. Hundley. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Individual Determinants of Self-Employment Entry – What Do We Really Know? (2013, unknown): “Second, women and men are predominantly engaged in different sectors, with an overrepresentation of females in the service and trade sector (Devine, 1994b; Bates, 1995; Hundley, 2001; Müller and Arum, 2004; Vejsiu, 2011).”
Do serial entrepreneurs run successively better-performing businesses? (2013, background): “Family size captures household demographic structures which may also affect the performance of entrepreneurial ventures (Hundley, 2001).”
Gender differences in self‐employment (2005, background): “As Hundley (2001) argues, women in selfemployment appear to be burdened by housework and childrearing in ways that limit the scope of their business and the intensity of work effort in them.”
Understanding current causes of women's underrepresentation in science (2011, background): “There are significant sex differences in hours worked and lifestyle preferences (58), and having children early in one’s career exerts more downward pressure on pretenure women than men (4, 52, 53).”
The Economics of Entrepreneurship: What We Know and What We Don't (2005, methodology): “According to a decomposition analysis by Hundley [84], greater involvement in housework, shorter work hours devoted to the business, and caring for young children together accounted for between 30% and 50% of the American annual self-employment earnings gender differential.”
Strengthening access to finance for women-owned SMEs in developing countries (2015, background): “…male headed firms in that sector.109 104 bruhn, 2009; hallward-Driemeier, 2011; Sabarwal, terrell, bardasi 2009; Costa and rijkers, Amin, 2010 105 hundley, 2001 106 Minniti, 2009 107 Ibid 108 Sabbarwal, terrel, and bardasi 2009 report this based on their study of entrepreneurs from ECA, Africa,…”
How do female entrepreneurs perform? Evidence from three developing regions (2011, unknown): “Hundley (2001) claims that women’s choices with respect to industrial sector can be important in explaining gender differences in entrepreneurial performance.”
Gender factors and female entrepreneurship: International evidence and policy implications (2010, background): “According to Hundley (2001), caring for children has a negative effect on female self-employment by reducing their earning potential.”
Effects of Childcare Activities on the Duration of Self–Employment in Europe * (2004, unknown): “Using Canadian data, however, Kuhn and Schuetze (2001) find that older children increase exit rates for the female self-employed.”
Gender and the Business Environment for New Firm Creation (2011, methodology): “A decomposition analysis by Hundley (2001), which explored the role of numerous explanatory variables, is especially instructive.”
Entrepreneurship Among Married Couples in the United States: A Simultaneous Probit Approach (2008, unknown): “Previous studies show that women tend to do more housework than men on average (Hundley, 2001; Edwards and Field-Hendrey, 2002).”
Failure or voluntary exit? Reassessing the female underperformance hypothesis (2015, background): “…preference is reinforced by the fact that, in comparison to males, females extract lower net earnings from entrepreneurship (Caliendo et al., 2010; Hundley, 2001) and that the gender differential in earnings is greater among the self-employed than among wage and salary workers (Clain, 2000;…”
Gender and field of study as determinants of self-employment (2010, background): “can be explained by the sizeable earnings differential between self-employed men and women ( Hundley 2001 ).”