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Skill Shortages as a Barrier to Women’s Start Ups: A Model with Evidence from Eswatini

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  • Thierry Kangoye
  • Zuzana Brixiová

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The shortages of entrepreneurial skills, both perceived and actual, have lowered the rate of opportunity-driven women’s entrepreneurship. This paper contributes to the literature on entrepreneurship, gender and development with a theoretical and empirical analysis linking gender differences in entrepreneurial outcomes to skills and business training. The role of skills, including self-confidence, and training for the […]

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  • Thierry Kangoye & Zuzana Brixiová, 2018. "Skill Shortages as a Barrier to Women’s Start Ups: A Model with Evidence from Eswatini," Working Papers 768, Economic Research Southern Africa.
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    1. Zuzana Brixiová & Thierry Kangoye, 2019. "Networks, start-up capital and women's entrepreneurial performance in Africa: Evidence from Eswatini," SALDRU Working Papers 257, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town.

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    Keywords

    Education; Firms and Development; Quantitative Methods;
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    JEL classification:

    • J4 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets
    • L53 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Enterprise Policy
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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