| Abstrakt: |
In this study, we examine whether business friendly states attract more female entrepreneurs compared to non-business friendly states. In the survey that we employ, business-friendliness has four components. These are the "ease of hire", "ease of start", "training/networking programs", and "regulations". Besides looking at how each of these business friendliness components affects the concentration of female entrepreneurs in a state, we also examine how each component affects other entrepreneur characteristics including "previous entrepreneurial experience", "age", "political view", "education level", and "race". Our results for "overall business friendliness" show that, in businessfriendly states, there are more female owners and experienced owners when compared to the other states. In these states, there are more conservatives but fewer liberals and independents. Also, in these states, we are seeing more technical college and high school graduates and fewer community college graduates and master's graduates. Finally, in these states, we see fewer Asian or Hispanic owners when compared to the other states. With regard to the components of business friendliness, we find that the states with higher scores in "ease of start" or "training/networking programs" have significantly more female entrepreneurs when compared to the other states. Our results show that "ease of hire" and "regulations" do not significantly affect the concentration of female entrepreneurs in a state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
