caa a22 4500 445877758 CHVBK 20180317145532.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11187-011-9375-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11187-011-9375-y Whose business is it anyway? [Elektronische Daten] Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa [Reyes Aterido, Mary Hallward-Driemeier] This article examines how gender may account for productivity gaps across enterprises. First, using data from six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, the article demonstrates that the extent and significance of any productivity gap by gender depends critically on the criteria used to classify an enterprise. Using a definition of ‘female participation in ownership,' there are few differences in average performance measures. However, a 12% productivity gap emerges when a tighter definition, based on decision-making control, is used. Second, the article examines which entrepreneurial characteristics (education, management skills, experience and the motivation for being an entrepreneur) are most associated with higher productivity. The findings reveal that there are some gender gaps in the prevalence of these characteristics, but that these do not account for the overall gender productivity gap. Rather, while women benefit as much as men from education and management skills, there are non-linear impacts by gender in the benefits of having a family background in entrepreneurship; sons rather than daughters benefit from having a father that was an entrepreneur or from joining a family enterprise. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2011 Entrepreneurial characteristics nationallicence Gender productivity gap nationallicence Sub-Saharan Africa nationallicence Entrepreneurship nationallicence Women entrepreneurs nationallicence Aterido Reyes Research Department, World Bank, Washington, USA aut Hallward-Driemeier Mary Research Department, World Bank, Washington, USA aut Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/4(2011-11-01), 443-464 0921-898X 37:4<443 2011 37 11187 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-011-9375-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-011-9375-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Aterido Reyes Research Department, World Bank, Washington, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hallward-Driemeier Mary Research Department, World Bank, Washington, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/4(2011-11-01), 443-464 0921-898X 37:4<443 2011 37 11187 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer