Female-Owned Firms in Latin America : Characteristics, Performance, and Obstacles to Growth

This paper examines the characteristics and performance of female-owned firms in Latin America. Data from firm surveys show that female-owned firms tend to be smaller than male-owned firms in terms of employees, sales, costs, and physical capital....

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Main Author:	Bruhn, Miriam
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	entrepreneurship farm ownership firm ownership female-owned child care responsibilities
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/11/11525121/female-owned-firms-latin-america-characteristics-performance-obstacles-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19961

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spelling	okr-10986-199612021-04-23T14:03:52Z Female-Owned Firms in Latin America : Characteristics, Performance, and Obstacles to Growth Bruhn, Miriam entrepreneurship farm ownership firm ownership female-owned child care responsibilities This paper examines the characteristics and performance of female-owned firms in Latin America. Data from firm surveys show that female-owned firms tend to be smaller than male-owned firms in terms of employees, sales, costs, and physical capital. Female-owned firms also have lower profits than male-owned firms, but for larger firms this difference disappears after controlling for labor and capital inputs. Medium-size and large female-owned firms are as productive as male-owned firms of the same size, although micro and small female-owned firms are less productive than male-owned firms. There is no evidence that the differences between female and male-owned firms are due to differences in access to finance or regulatory burdens. However, this paper finds a negative correlation between child care and household obligations and female-owned firm size and performance. 2014-09-02T22:03:00Z 2014-09-02T22:03:00Z 2009-11 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/11/11525121/female-owned-firms-latin-america-characteristics-performance-obstacles-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19961 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 5122 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean
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description	This paper examines the characteristics and performance of female-owned firms in Latin America. Data from firm surveys show that female-owned firms tend to be smaller than male-owned firms in terms of employees, sales, costs, and physical capital. Female-owned firms also have lower profits than male-owned firms, but for larger firms this difference disappears after controlling for labor and capital inputs. Medium-size and large female-owned firms are as productive as male-owned firms of the same size, although micro and small female-owned firms are less productive than male-owned firms. There is no evidence that the differences between female and male-owned firms are due to differences in access to finance or regulatory burdens. However, this paper finds a negative correlation between child care and household obligations and female-owned firm size and performance.
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author	Bruhn, Miriam
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title	Female-Owned Firms in Latin America : Characteristics, Performance, and Obstacles to Growth
title_short	Female-Owned Firms in Latin America : Characteristics, Performance, and Obstacles to Growth
title_full	Female-Owned Firms in Latin America : Characteristics, Performance, and Obstacles to Growth
title_fullStr	Female-Owned Firms in Latin America : Characteristics, Performance, and Obstacles to Growth
title_full_unstemmed	Female-Owned Firms in Latin America : Characteristics, Performance, and Obstacles to Growth
title_sort	female-owned firms in latin america : characteristics, performance, and obstacles to growth
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2014
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/11/11525121/female-owned-firms-latin-america-characteristics-performance-obstacles-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19961
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Female-Owned Firms in Latin America : Characteristics, Performance, and Obstacles to Growth

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