...Katarzyna Sałach-Dróżdż; Karolina Goraus-Tańska Purpose This study explores how personal and household characteristics influence self-employment in Poland, with a focus on gender differences. Specifically, it examines the roles of a spouse/partner's employment type and income as well...

... informally (KNBS, 2016). Specifically, 47.7% of licensed MSMEs are men-owned versus 32.1% that are women-owned. Meanwhile, 61% of unlicensed MSMEs are owned by women. Women also account for the majority (54.9%) of business closures. Self-employment Gender theory Mixed-methods...

...Carolina Gallo Garcia; Lara Gautier; Marie-Jeanne Blain Purpose This article provides a narrative review of recent research on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrant women in Canada. The aim was to identify the state-of-the-art, current trends and findings in existing literature...

... dynamics within entrepreneurship over two decades, particularly highlighting the significant increase in women's participation in business creation. Self-employment Womens entrepreneurship Nascent entrepreneurs Business creation Global participation Business creation is a critical feature...

... and community. Self-employment Gender theory Womens entrepreneurship Feminist economics The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Commission (EC) report that if women were as active in business creation as a group of 30–49 year old men, an additional 26...

..., created and sustained, and how being an older woman relates to self-integrity in self-employment. The results show a nuanced interplay between gender and age: Age and gender both constrain and become assets for older women in self-employment through older women's experiences of self-integrity. So far...

... and medium enterprises ”, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering , Vol. 337 No. 1 , doi: 10.1088/1757-899X/337/1/012064 . Heilman , M.E. and Chen , J.J. (2003), “ Entrepreneurship as a solution: the allure of self-employment for women and minorities ”, Human Resource...

... oriented relationships with foreign companies. McQuaid et al. (2010) suggest that immigrant entrepreneurs work to create links to their homelands to expand their business because their connections there expedite their growth. Self-employment Innovation Women entrepreneurship Strategy...

... that can empower women entrepreneurs while simultaneously reinforcing gendered norms. Self-employment Womens entrepreneurship Micro businesses Conflict context Gaza Gender roles Conflict Necessity entrepreneurship Women entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial opportunities and constraints...

...Paz Rico; Bernardí Cabrer-Borrás Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the gender differences of self-employment in Spain. Design/methodology/approach A binary choice model is specified and estimated, using information from the Continuous Working Life Sample drawn from the registers...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Self-employment Women’s entrepreneurship The findings of pertinent investigations highlight the importance of women’s entrepreneurship for national economic growth and social well-being (De Vita, 2013 ; Delmar and Holmquist, 2004...

... of flexibility and work-family balance (Brush, 1992 ; DeMartino and Barbato, 2003 ; Powell and Greenhaus, 2010a , 2010b ; Heilman and Chen, 2003 ; Heilman and Parks-Stamm, 2007 ; Loscocco, 1997). Business owners can decide their own schedule (Eddleston and Powell, 2012). Self-employment can satisfy...

...Claudia Gather; Lena Schürmann; Heinz Zipprian Purpose This paper aims to look at the multiple embeddedness of male self-employment by focusing on entrepreneurship of men supported by female breadwinners. Design/methodology/approach Following a qualitative research design, the paper presents...

... did not have the possibility of differentiating between the innovative aspect of entrepreneurship and the aspect of earning a living. Therefore, we did not differentiate the articles in IJGE according to self-employment or entrepreneurship/innovation. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited...

... pulled into self-employment by a desire for independence, with limited economic opportunities and barriers in the labour market being important for just a minority of the self-employed (Hughes, 2003 , p. 437). For a long time in Germany, the total early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) rate...

...‐García and Jiménez‐Moreno, 2009 ; Kolvereid, 1996 ; Buttner and Moore, 1997). Therefore, the research on gender in entrepreneurship remains inconclusive. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Women Entrepreneurship Self‐employment Gender Theory of planned behaviour Meta‐analysis...

... and Sokol, 1982 , cited in Yetim, 2008, p. 866). These factors may push or pull (often depending on their socio‐economic position) women into entrepreneurship. While for some self‐employment may be the consequence of “blocked upward mobility” (Clarke and Drinkwater, 2010, p. 324), for others...