Entrepreneurs in the new economy: Immigration and sex effects in the Montreal metropolitan area |
| |
Authors: | Sylvie Paré Kelogue Therasme |
| |
Institution: | 1.Département d’études urbaines et touristiques, école des sciences de la gestion,Université du Québec à Montréal,Montréal,Canada |
| |
Abstract: | The recent literature on women’s entrepreneurship shows that they are underrepresented in the main stream economy when compared
to their male counterparts, a phenomenon typically observed in other urban contexts. Approximately 30% of the entrepreneurs
in the Montreal metropolitan area are women, active in a variety of sectors of the general economy. Their underrepresentation
is still greater in the new economy, that is, those sectors that are knowledge-based and/or specialized in information technologies
and communications. In this article, we examine the place of female entrepreneurs in the larger economy and in the new economy
as related to their immigrant and/or ethnic origins. We seek in this paper to establish a comparative analysis of the situation
of women entrepreneurs in immigrant-origin groups, focusing our attention on both the presence of women in entrepreneurial
positions and the differential impact associated with membership in an immigrant-origin group. Based on data derived from
Scott's Directory of 2007, we first determined an operational definition of the new economy and then analyzed the data from
the perspective of sex and ethnic/immigrant origin. New economy enterprises represent approximately 12% of businesses in the
Montreal metropolitan area, the majority of which are of the knowledge-based variety, and there is a relative, statistically
significant absence of women from such enterprises. At the same time, there is a significantly greater presence of women drawn
from minority groups, that is, from groups other than the Anglo-Canadian and French-Canadian dominant groups. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|