caa a22 4500 445877766 CHVBK 20180317145532.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11187-011-9373-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11187-011-9373-0 Institutions and female entrepreneurship [Elektronische Daten] [Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz] This paper compares the impact of institutions on men and women's decisions to establish new business start-ups between 2001 and 2006. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey (GEM) which cover at least 2,000 individuals per year in each of up to 55 countries and have merged it with country-level data, from the World Bank, Economist Intelligence Unit, Polity IV and the Heritage Foundation. We find that women are less likely to undertake entrepreneurial activity in countries where the state sector is larger, but the rule of law is not generally found to have gender-specific effects. However, more detailed institutional components of discrimination against women, in particular, restrictions on freedom of movement away from home, make it less likely for women to have high entrepreneurial aspirations in terms of employment growth, even if their entry into entrepreneurial activities, including self-employment, is not affected by this. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2011 Female entrepreneurship nationallicence State sector nationallicence Rule of law nationallicence Estrin Saul Department of Management, London School of Economics, Houghton St, WC2A 2AE, London, UK aut Mickiewicz Tomasz SSEES, University College London, Greater London, UK aut Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/4(2011-11-01), 397-415 0921-898X 37:4<397 2011 37 11187 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-011-9373-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-011-9373-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Estrin Saul Department of Management, London School of Economics, Houghton St, WC2A 2AE, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mickiewicz Tomasz SSEES, University College London, Greater London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/4(2011-11-01), 397-415 0921-898X 37:4<397 2011 37 11187 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer