The impact of women-related determinants on women entrepreneurship in the Maghreb : an econometric analysis

Abstract EN

This study attempts to explore the factors that encourage the entrepreneurial activities of women in three Maghreb countries : Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.

The results will be useful to academics, theorists in the field of entrepreneurship, as well as practitioners and business creation devices in this region.

To do that, the panel data analysis has been used to estimate the relationship between the rate of female entrepreneurs and a set of explanatory variables associated to gender and some macro-environmental variables.

The findings show that the impact of the labour force participation rate of women and the level of schooling is positive for the creation of women-led businesses, while the effect of the fertility rate and the inequality index is negative.