Firm survival and gender of firm owner in times of COVID-19 Evidence from 10 European countries

Joachim Wagner ()
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Joachim Wagner: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre

No 409, Working Paper Series in Economics from University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics

Abstract: This paper uses firm level data from the World Bank Enterprise surveys conducted in 2019 and from the COVID-19 follow-up surveys conducted in 2020 in ten European countries to investigate the link between the gender of the firm’s owner and firm survival until 2020.The estimated effect of female ownership is positive ceteris paribus after controlling for various firm characteristics that are known to be related to survival. Furthermore, the size of this estimated effect can be considered to be large on average. Having a female owner helped firms to survive.

Keywords: Gender; female owned firms; firm survival; COVID-19; World Bank Enterprise Surveys (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 L20 L25 L29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2022-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ban, nep-bec, nep-ent, nep-eur, nep-gen, nep-sbm and nep-tid
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