Arbeitspapier
Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen : Proclivity and Performance
Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between native women (both from West and East Germany) and migrants using a rich data set from the German Socio-economic Panel. Results on self-employment proclivity are very sensitive to the alternative choice. Women choose self-employment over a business career in the salaried sector when they are older, less educated, have under-age children, and parents who are self-employed themselves. When women are younger and more educated but have children, they choose self-employment as a way to circumvent unemployment. Women who are more educated and do not have under-age children are more likely to be businesswomen in the salaried sector, suggesting a clear choice for a secure job. East German women are less likely to choose self-employment or a business career than West German women. Overall, compared to other types of employment, selfemployment offers women the desirable and valuable element of time and space flexibility. Businesswomen in paid-employment earn the highest wages and this is long-lasting. Compared to women in lower dependent employment, those in self-employment earn more. Thus, self-employment offers women a path to economic success. Invariably, East German women earn less than West German women.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1234
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
New Firms; Startups
Labor Demand
- Thema
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entrepreneurship
self-employment
occupational choice
economics of minorities
economics of gender
immigrants
Frauenarbeitslosigkeit
Berufswahl
Unternehmer
Selbstständige
Weibliche Führungskräfte
Migranten
Schätzung
Erwerbsverlauf
Deutschland
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Constant, Amelie F.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2004
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Constant, Amelie F.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2004
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