Labor Productivity, Firm-size and Gender
A commonly held view is that female-owned businesses suffer from many disadvantages compared to male-owned businesses. These disadvantages lead, in turn, to relatively lower levels of efficiency and smaller firm-size among female-owned businesses—t...
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2021
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| Acceso en línea: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/792431616787154093/Labor-Productivity-Firm-size-and-Gender-The-Case-of-Informal-Firms-in-Argentina-and-Peru https://hdl.handle.net/10986/35330 https://doi.org/10.1596/35330 |
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| description | A commonly held view is that
female-owned businesses suffer from many disadvantages
compared to male-owned businesses. These disadvantages lead,
in turn, to relatively lower levels of efficiency and
smaller firm-size among female-owned businesses—the female
owned firms under-performance hypothesis. Using data on
unregistered firms in Argentina and Peru, the female-owned
firms under-performance hypothesis is confirmed. The gender
based difference in efficiency and firm-size holds within
the full sample and no more than 25 percent to 30 percent of
the difference can be explained by variations in firm
characteristics. The gender based gap in performance also
holds within various sub-samples of firms, although the
magnitude of the difference does vary across the sub-samples. |
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| spelling | wb-10986-353302025-04-28T07:13:57Z Labor Productivity, Firm-size and Gender The Case of Informal Firms in Argentina and Peru Amin, Mohammad GENDER FEMALE-OWNED BUSINESS LABOR PRODUCTIVITY ACCESS TO FINANCE FIRM SIZE INFORMALITY INFORMAL FIRM A commonly held view is that female-owned businesses suffer from many disadvantages compared to male-owned businesses. These disadvantages lead, in turn, to relatively lower levels of efficiency and smaller firm-size among female-owned businesses—the female owned firms under-performance hypothesis. Using data on unregistered firms in Argentina and Peru, the female-owned firms under-performance hypothesis is confirmed. The gender based difference in efficiency and firm-size holds within the full sample and no more than 25 percent to 30 percent of the difference can be explained by variations in firm characteristics. The gender based gap in performance also holds within various sub-samples of firms, although the magnitude of the difference does vary across the sub-samples. 2021-03-29T16:11:53Z 2021-03-29T16:11:53Z 2011 Survey Enquête Encuesta http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/792431616787154093/Labor-Productivity-Firm-size-and-Gender-The-Case-of-Informal-Firms-in-Argentina-and-Peru https://hdl.handle.net/10986/35330 https://doi.org/10.1596/35330 English Enterprise Note Series;No. 22 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank and the International Finance Corporation application/pdf text/plain World Bank, Washington, DC |
| spellingShingle | GENDER FEMALE-OWNED BUSINESS LABOR PRODUCTIVITY ACCESS TO FINANCE FIRM SIZE INFORMALITY INFORMAL FIRM Amin, Mohammad Labor Productivity, Firm-size and Gender |
| title | Labor Productivity, Firm-size and Gender |
| title_full | Labor Productivity, Firm-size and Gender |
| title_fullStr | Labor Productivity, Firm-size and Gender |
| title_full_unstemmed | Labor Productivity, Firm-size and Gender |
| title_short | Labor Productivity, Firm-size and Gender |
| title_sort | labor productivity firm size and gender |
| topic | GENDER FEMALE-OWNED BUSINESS LABOR PRODUCTIVITY ACCESS TO FINANCE FIRM SIZE INFORMALITY INFORMAL FIRM |
| url | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/792431616787154093/Labor-Productivity-Firm-size-and-Gender-The-Case-of-Informal-Firms-in-Argentina-and-Peru https://hdl.handle.net/10986/35330 https://doi.org/10.1596/35330 |
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