Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192709 
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Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 727
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
The underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship is consistent over cultures and countries, and is even higher in Norway than in most other industrialised societies. In spite of a growing literature, the reasons for this pattern are still not well understood. In this paper I explore an area that has been little researched so far, the family and household situation. I study the presence of children and their ages, the role of the partner's characteristics and the household's financial resources. The results show that women are more likely to choose self-employment over wage-work when the children are small, indicating that children are no barrier to entrepreneurship, at least not when defined as self-employment as in this paper. The self-employment propensity of both women and men are negatively related to their partner's working hours and positively related to him (or her) being self-employed himself (herself). The causal direction of these relationships cannot be established in the present analysis and needs to be investigated closer in future research.
Subjects: 
Entrepreneurship
self-employment
gender
work and family
partner's characteristics
JEL: 
L26
J13
J16
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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