Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/146734 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Citation: 
[Journal:] Estudios de Economía [ISSN:] 0718-5286 [Volume:] 42 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía [Place:] Santiago de Chile [Year:] 2015 [Pages:] 67-91
Publisher: 
Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía, Santiago de Chile
Abstract: 
This article studies female participation rates as entrepreneurs during the 1877- 1908 period using data from the Santiago business license registry, census data and the trademark registry. The evidence reveals that business women in Santiago increased from 3 to 14 percent of the female labor force in the corresponding sectors analyzed during the period. The evidence shows women increasingly as business people: half of the economic sectors analyzed had female entrepreneurs while firms run by women increased from 13 to 20 percent in Santiago, but reached only 5 percent of national firms within the elite.
Subjects: 
female entrepreneurship
economic history
economic development
Chile in late 19th century
JEL: 
N86
N96
Document Type: 
Article

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