Labor Productivity, Firm-size and Gender : The Case of Informal Firms in Argentina and Peru
A commonly held view is that female-owned businesses suffer from many disadvantages compared to male-owned businesses. These disadvantages lead, in turn, to relatively lower levels of efficiency and smaller firm-size among female-owned businesses—t...
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| Format: | Survey |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/792431616787154093/Labor-Productivity-Firm-size-and-Gender-The-Case-of-Informal-Firms-in-Argentina-and-Peru http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35330 |
| Summary: | A commonly held view is that
female-owned businesses suffer from many disadvantages
compared to male-owned businesses. These disadvantages lead,
in turn, to relatively lower levels of efficiency and
smaller firm-size among female-owned businesses—the female
owned firms under-performance hypothesis. Using data on
unregistered firms in Argentina and Peru, the female-owned
firms under-performance hypothesis is confirmed. The gender
based difference in efficiency and firm-size holds within
the full sample and no more than 25 percent to 30 percent of
the difference can be explained by variations in firm
characteristics. The gender based gap in performance also
holds within various sub-samples of firms, although the
magnitude of the difference does vary across the sub-samples. |
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