Gender specific distortions, entrepreneurship and misallocation

IF 1.9 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS
Ashantha Ranasinghe
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Abstract

Women account for a small share of all business owners and a small share of the market in India's manufacturing sector. To account for these patterns, I estimate the extent of gender-specific distortions to operating a business using firm-level data. Feeding these estimates that differ across gender into a standard framework of heterogeneous producers replicates key features of the firm size distribution, on aggregate and across gender. While women face high entry barriers into entrepreneurship, they have modest impacts on female market shares when there are sharp differences in distortions across gender along the intensive margin of entrepreneurship. Policies that promote female entrepreneurship are effective, yet have only modest impacts on aggregate productivity. These findings are not unique to India, and apply across a broader set of countries.

因性别而异的扭曲、创业和分配不当
在印度制造业中,女性在所有企业主中所占的比例很小,在市场中所占的份额也很小。为了解释这些模式,我利用企业层面的数据估算了不同性别对企业经营的扭曲程度。将这些因性别而异的估算结果输入异质生产者的标准框架中,可以复制企业规模分布的关键特征,包括总体分布和跨性别分布。虽然女性创业面临较高的准入门槛,但当不同性别在创业密集边际的扭曲存在显著差异时,这些门槛对女性市场份额的影响并不大。促进女性创业的政策是有效的,但对总体生产率的影响不大。这些发现并非印度独有,适用于更广泛的国家。
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期刊介绍: The journal provides an outlet for publication of research concerning all theoretical and empirical aspects of economic dynamics and control as well as the development and use of computational methods in economics and finance. Contributions regarding computational methods may include, but are not restricted to, artificial intelligence, databases, decision support systems, genetic algorithms, modelling languages, neural networks, numerical algorithms for optimization, control and equilibria, parallel computing and qualitative reasoning.
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