Life-course and entry to entrepreneurship:embedded in gender and gender-egalitarianism |
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| Authors: | Maryam Cheraghi Kent Adsbøll Wickstrøm Kim Klyver |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Southern Denmark, Department of Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management, Kolding, Denmarkpe.cheraghi@gmail.com;3. University of Southern Denmark, Department of Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management, Kolding, Denmark;4. Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre (ECIC), University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACTPrior research has suggested that low gender egalitarianism results in a gender gap in entrepreneurship participation, as it provides men and women with different opportunities and constraints. However, this research has primarily relied on an unrealistic assumption, namely that gender-related opportunities and constraints occur evenly throughout different life stages. This paper details an institutional life-course model that explains gender-related patterns in individuals’ propensity to enter entrepreneurship and contingencies related to the level of gender-egalitarianism in society and individuals’ life stages. We test our conceptual model on a unique integrated dataset from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and the World Value Survey, encompassing a total of 672,781 adults in 71 countries. |
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| Keywords: | Life course entrepreneurship start-up age gender gender egalitarianism |
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