Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship

Rijkers, Bob; Costa, Rita

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-6066

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“…Several studies, such as the one by Rijkers and Costa (2012), stress gender traits in rural entrepreneurship. In particular, these authors conclude that in the countries 5 Twenty years of rural entrepreneurship they investigated (Bangladesh, Indonesia and Sri Lanka), women are less likely to be non-farm entrepreneurs than men.…”

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Twenty Years of Rural Entrepreneurship: A Bibliometric Survey

2014

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Entrepreneurship has become a dynamic field of research in the last two decades. However, 'rural entrepreneurship' has been largely overlooked. It seems therefore timely to present a quantitative survey of the literature in this particular area. Based on 181 articles on rural entrepreneurship published in journals indexed in Scopus, we found that rural entrepreneurship is an essentially European concern, whose most prolific authors are affiliated with institutions in the UK and Spain. Organisational characteristics, policy measures and institutional frameworks and governance have attracted considerable attention in recent years, being considered emergent topics of research. In contrast, theory building has not attracted much research over the period in analysis, which suggests that the theoretical body of rural entrepreneurship is still incipient, hindering the establishment of its boundaries and of a suitable research agenda. Empirical literature on rural entrepreneurship has focused mainly on developed countries, most notably, the UK, the USA, Spain, Finland and Greece. Given the potential rural entrepreneurship represents for less developed and underdeveloped countries, more research on the topic targeting these countries is an imperative.

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Twenty Years of Rural Entrepreneurship: A Bibliometric Survey

2014

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“…In terms of revenue, Bardasi et al (2011) indicate that female-owned enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa have sales that are 31 per cent lower than those of male-owned firms. For productivity, Hallward-Driemeier (2011) estimates the gender gaps in labour productivity in Africa to be 6 to 8 per cent, and Rijkers and Costa (2012) analyse rural nonfarm entrepreneurship and find that male-owned firms in Ethiopia are three times more productive than female-owned ones. Finally, our examination of summary statistics from the Uganda National Household Survey 2005/06 (UBOS 2006) indicates that male-owned businesses in Uganda are 3.1 times larger than female-owned enterprises and earn 2.5 times as much.…”

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“…However, the sector in which the firm operates is consistently found to be a major determinant of gender-related differences in performance and growth (e.g. Bardasi et al 2011;Hallward-Driemeier 2011;Rijkers and Costa 2012). 2 For example, Hundley (2001) estimates that women's concentration in the personal services sector explains as much as 14 per cent of the gender-based self-employment earnings differential.…”

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Breaking the metal ceiling: Female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectors

Campos¹,

Goldstein²,

McGorman³

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Occupational segregation significantly contributes to the earnings gender gap worldwide. We look at differences in outcomes for male and female enterprises and their sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, a region of high female participation in entrepreneurship. Data on Uganda show that women breaking into male-dominated sectors make as much as men, and three times more than women staying in female-dominated sectors. Factors including entrepreneurial skill/abilities and credit/human capital constraints do not explain women's sectoral choices. However, information about profitability, male role models' influence, and exposure to the sector from family and friends are critical in helping women circumvent or overcome norms undergirding occupational segregation.

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“…One important aspect of gender inequality in the labour market that has not been much studied is the role of women in entrepreneurial activities. Although there is no reliable data on the percentage of women working as entrepreneurs in developing countries, there exists some evidence that the value added of men and the profitability of firms owned by men is significantly higher than those of women (Bruhn, 2009;Bardasi, Sabarwal & Terrell, 2011;Hallward-Driemeier, 2011, andRijkers &Costa, 2012). The data also shows that gender gaps in political participation are largely present in many countries and that do not clearly decrease as countries become richer (WDR, 2012).…”

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Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: A Critical Review

Cuberes

Teignier

2013

J of Intl Development

161

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Abstract:The link between gender inequality and economic growth is a topic that is of growing interest, both in the academic literature and the policy arena. In this paper, we survey the literature that analyses this relationship from a macroeconomic perspective. We argue that that the existing theories provide a wide range of mechanisms through which these two variables may affect each other but also that more work needs to be carried out to obtain quantitative predictions out of these models. In the empirical arena, we note the lack of connection between most studies and the existing theories described earlier. In both cases, we propose approaches to alleviate these problems.

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Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship

Cited by 23 publications

References 16 publications

Twenty Years of Rural Entrepreneurship: A Bibliometric Survey

Twenty Years of Rural Entrepreneurship: A Bibliometric Survey

Breaking the metal ceiling: Female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectors

Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: A Critical Review

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