What Drives Self-Employment Survival for Women and Men? Evidence from Canada

Rybczynski, Kate

doi:10.1007/s12122-014-9194-4

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“…Analyzing self-employment survival of men and women in Canada, Rybczynski (2015) finds that the probability of exiting self-employment for women is increasing in the number of children below 15 years of age, but for men, the number of children has no impact on business survival.…”

Section: Self-employment Entry After Childbirthmentioning

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How does motherhood affect self-employment performance?

Joona

2017

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This paper analyzes the timing between self-employment entry and first child birth among Swedish women, using register data for the cohort of women born between 1970 and 1975. We use longitudinal data, where w e observe selfemployment entry, childbirths, and self-employment outcomes during the period 1995 to 2013. The main research question is whether women who have children when entering self-employment perform less well compared to women who do not have children at the time of self-employment entry. One reason to expect differences in outcomes is that childless women are less time constrained and could potentially invest more time in the business, which could affect outcomes. We find, contrary to our hypothesis, that women who had a child at the time of selfemployment entry have higher incomes, higher revenues and more employees in their firms, while we find no difference in the exit rate out of selfemployment.

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Section: Self-employment Entry After Childbirthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many previous studies have looked at the importance of wealth or liquidity constraints, both for selfemployment entry and for success (see, e.g., HoltzEakin et al 1994;Hurst and Lusardi 2004;Rybczynski 2015;Taylor 1999). The results from these studies are somewhat mixed.…”

Section: Self-employment Entry After Childbirthmentioning

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How does motherhood affect self-employment performance?

Joona

2017

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“…Our second objective explores supply side issues regarding whether women business owners have equal access to loans, and whether this has been affected by the GFC. The broad evidence suggests that generically, women use smaller amounts of start-up capital (Fairlie and Robb, 2009;Cesaroni, Sentuti, and Buratti, 2015) and experience higher liquidity constraints in terms of income and personal wealth (Rybczynski, 2015). We would therefore, expect the GFC to have a greater influence upon access to loans which may in turn, exacerbate notions of risk and contribute to discouragement (Cowling, Liu, Minniti et al, 2016;Rostamkalaie, Nitani and Riding, 2018).…”

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Gender and bank lending after the global financial crisis: are women entrepreneurs safer bets?

2019

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Using gender as a theoretical framework, we analyse the dynamics of bank lending to small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in the aftermath of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Using six waves of the SME Finance Monitor survey, we apply a formal Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to test whether gender impacts upon the supply and demand for debt finance by women. Reflecting established evidence, we found women had a lower demand for bank loans; contradicting accepted wisdom however, we found that women who did apply were more likely to be successful. We argue that feminised risk aversion might inform more conservative applications during a period of financial uncertainty which may be beneficial for women in terms of gaining loans. However, we also uncover more subtle evidence suggesting that bank decisions may differ for women who may be unfairly treated in terms of collateral but regarded more positively when holding large cash balances.

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“…Additionally, it is not very uncommon to use old, individual-level datasets for empirical analyses. There are many studies on the Canadian labour market who have used the same data and published almost 12 years after the data period (for detail see, Ahmad, et al [39], Brouillette, et al [40], Rybczynski [41], Lightman and Gingrich [42], Bahar and Liu [43], Schuetze [44]).…”

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Self-Employment Dynamics of Immigrants and Natives: Individual-level Analysis for the Canadian Labour Market

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This paper analyses the dynamic transitions of self-employment in four states of the Canadian labour market (paid-employment, self-employment, unemployment, and being out of the labour force) by answering three core questions: (1) What are the determinants of the transitions into and out of the four labour market states? (2) Are the probabilities of transitions between immigrants and natives significantly different, and if so, are they due to entry–exit rate gaps between immigrants and natives? (3) What are the proportions of spurious and structural state dependence in the labour market states of immigrants and natives? Our analysis was based on longitudinal data from Canada’s Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) for males aged 25 to 55 for the period 1993 to 2004. Our results revealed that immigrants rather than natives are relatively more likely to be self-employed during the unemployment period. The findings also confirmed that males with positive investment income or wealth tended to be largely self-employed. From a policy perspective, the government provision of financial support towards self-employment positively benefits natives in seeking self-employment opportunities. Government policies to lessen labour market discrimination promotes the self-employment of immigrants.

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What Drives Self-Employment Survival for Women and Men? Evidence from Canada

Cited by 14 publications

References 33 publications

How does motherhood affect self-employment performance?

How does motherhood affect self-employment performance?

Gender and bank lending after the global financial crisis: are women entrepreneurs safer bets?

Self-Employment Dynamics of Immigrants and Natives: Individual-level Analysis for the Canadian Labour Market

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