TY  - JOUR
A1  - Caliendo, Marco
A1  - Fossen, Frank M.
A1  - Kritikos, Alexander
A1  - Wetter, Miriam
T1  - The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Not just a Matter of Personality
T2  - CESifo economic studies : a joint initiative of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Ifo Institute for Economic Research
N2  - Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk aversion among women explains a large share of the entrepreneurial gender gap. We also find an education effect contributing to the gender difference. In contrast, the Big Five model and the current employment state have effects in the opposite direction, meaning that the gender gap in entrepreneurial entry would be even larger if women had the same scores and the same employment status as men. (JEL codes: L26, J16, D81, J24, M13).
KW  - entrepreneurship
KW  - gender gap
KW  - personality
KW  - decomposition analysis
Y1  - 2015
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/39115
SN  - 1610-241X
SN  - 1612-7501
VL  - 61
IS  - 1
SP  - 202
EP  - 238
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -