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Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship: The importance of skill variety
Given that skill variety is widely regarded a key component of entrepreneurial human capital, gender differences in entrepreneurship could be rooted in the formation of such skill variety. Analyzing 12-year longitudinal data following 1,321 Finnish adolescents into adulthood, we study whether gender...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9269869/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35802732 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270976 |
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author | Krieger, Alexander Block, Jörn Stuetzer, Michael Obschonka, Martin Salmela-Aro, Katariina |
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description | Given that skill variety is widely regarded a key component of entrepreneurial human capital, gender differences in entrepreneurship could be rooted in the formation of such skill variety. Analyzing 12-year longitudinal data following 1,321 Finnish adolescents into adulthood, we study whether gender differences in skill variety open up early in the vocational development of entrepreneurs vs. non-entrepreneurs, thereby contributing to the persisting gender gap in entrepreneurship in adulthood. Specifically, structural equation modeling was used to test and compare the mediating effect of early skill variety in adolescence vs. education- and work-related skill variety in early adulthood on the gender gap in entrepreneurial intentions in adulthood. We find that education- and work-related skill variety indeed operate as an obstacle for women entrepreneurship, despite women outperforming men in early skill variety in adolescence. Hence, we identify a critical turning point in early adulthood where women fall behind in their development of entrepreneurial human capital. |
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spelling | pubmed-92698692022-07-09 Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship: The importance of skill variety Krieger, Alexander Block, Jörn Stuetzer, Michael Obschonka, Martin Salmela-Aro, Katariina PLoS One Research Article Given that skill variety is widely regarded a key component of entrepreneurial human capital, gender differences in entrepreneurship could be rooted in the formation of such skill variety. Analyzing 12-year longitudinal data following 1,321 Finnish adolescents into adulthood, we study whether gender differences in skill variety open up early in the vocational development of entrepreneurs vs. non-entrepreneurs, thereby contributing to the persisting gender gap in entrepreneurship in adulthood. Specifically, structural equation modeling was used to test and compare the mediating effect of early skill variety in adolescence vs. education- and work-related skill variety in early adulthood on the gender gap in entrepreneurial intentions in adulthood. We find that education- and work-related skill variety indeed operate as an obstacle for women entrepreneurship, despite women outperforming men in early skill variety in adolescence. Hence, we identify a critical turning point in early adulthood where women fall behind in their development of entrepreneurial human capital. Public Library of Science 2022-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9269869/ /pubmed/35802732 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270976 Text en © 2022 Krieger et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Krieger, Alexander Block, Jörn Stuetzer, Michael Obschonka, Martin Salmela-Aro, Katariina Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship: The importance of skill variety |
title | Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship: The importance of skill variety |
title_full | Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship: The importance of skill variety |
title_fullStr | Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship: The importance of skill variety |
title_full_unstemmed | Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship: The importance of skill variety |
title_short | Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship: The importance of skill variety |
title_sort | closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship: the importance of skill variety |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9269869/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35802732 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270976 |
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