Gender differences in business performance: Evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey

Small Business Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 375-395

  Fairlie, Robert W ^a   Robb, Alicia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Business outcomes; Female entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 76049115172     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9207-5     Document Type: Article

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