Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship

Using novel matched household-enterprise-community datasets from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, this paper analyses gender differences in rural non-farm entrepreneurship. Women have lower rates of non-farm entrepreneurship, except in Ethiopia. Female-headed households which run a non...

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Main Authors:	Costa, Rita, Rijkers, Bob
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:	World Development Report 2012
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9112

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spelling	okr-10986-91122021-04-23T14:02:44Z Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship Costa, Rita Rijkers, Bob World Development Report 2012 Using novel matched household-enterprise-community datasets from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, this paper analyses gender differences in rural non-farm entrepreneurship. Women have lower rates of non-farm entrepreneurship, except in Ethiopia. Female-headed households which run a non-farm firm derive a larger share of their income from it, even though female firms are smaller and less productive. Differences in output per worker are overwhelmingly accounted for by sorting by sector and size, as well as differences in factor intensity They are not due to, increasing returns to scale, differences in human capital or local investment climate characteristics. By contrast, gender differences in investment and growth rates are small. 2012-06-26T15:38:29Z 2012-06-26T15:38:29Z 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9112 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Africa East Asia and Pacific South Asia
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description	Using novel matched household-enterprise-community datasets from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, this paper analyses gender differences in rural non-farm entrepreneurship. Women have lower rates of non-farm entrepreneurship, except in Ethiopia. Female-headed households which run a non-farm firm derive a larger share of their income from it, even though female firms are smaller and less productive. Differences in output per worker are overwhelmingly accounted for by sorting by sector and size, as well as differences in factor intensity They are not due to, increasing returns to scale, differences in human capital or local investment climate characteristics. By contrast, gender differences in investment and growth rates are small.
author	Costa, Rita Rijkers, Bob
author_facet	Costa, Rita Rijkers, Bob
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title	Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship
title_short	Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship
title_full	Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship
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title_full_unstemmed	Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship
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publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
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Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship

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