Gender Bias in Access to Finance, Occupational Choice, and Business Performance
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Keywords
discrimination; finance; gender; occupational choice; small and medium enterprises;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- G20 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - General
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
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