From a sample of informal firms in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Madagascar and Mauritius, this note compares male, and female-owned businesses. The author test a number of hypotheses discussed in the literature and find the following results. First, the female-owned business under-performance hypothesis is confirmed, but only for firm-size. For firm efficiency, measured by the average productivity of labor, the author find little...
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تفاصيل
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2010/1/01
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مذكرة موجزة
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60350
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1
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2011/3/22
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Disclosed
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Gender and informality
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female entrepreneur