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This paper estimates new elasticities of value added with respect to labour and capital in Indonesian manufacturing, controlling for the simultaneity problem that potentially exists between the choice of input levels and a productivity shock (such as an increase in productivity due to new production processes), for plant exit, and for quasi-constant unobservable plant characteristics. It does so by applying the Levinsohn and Petrin (2003) production function estimator to plant-level value added, fixed assets, labour, and electricity consumption data over the period 1988-95. This methodology allows us to revisit the previously used growth accounting based elasticities, and thereby improves total factor productivity (TFP) estimates. The results show that, in the period under study, aggregate TFP growth in Indonesian manufacturing was higher than had previously been estimated.

Though unisex in concept, the realm of entrepreneurship is heavily dominated by men, with women representing only about one third of this population. Because of and as a result of this imbalance, the institutional environment in which entrepreneurship flourishes is still largely designed by and for men. Over the past decade, female entrepreneurs with young children have launched a worldwide “mompreneurship” movement, defining the practice of entrepreneurship as allowing for a balance between business and family responsibilities. A study of a French mompreneurship network explores this new phenomenon and pinpoints the specifics of this practice. While enabling mompreneurs to overcome the classical entrepreneur's obstacle of isolation, the network also helps these workers tap into the practical support they need to enable their businesses to flourish. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.