Gender and field of study as determinants of self-employment |
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Authors: | Thomas Leoni Martin Falk |
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Institution: | (1) Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna, Austria |
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Abstract: | This article concentrates on gender differences among university graduates with respect to self-employment. We investigate
the characteristics of self-employed men and women, focusing in particular on the contribution of field of study as a determinant
of the gender gap in self-employment rates. Our approach is based on probit regressions and on the application of a non-linear
decomposition technique to the gender gap in self-employment. We find that age and field of study account for two-thirds of
the observed gender gap in self-employment. |
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