Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg's research featured by the BBC: "Why female entrepreneurs are key to getting more women to work"
Goldberg and coauthor Gaurav Chiplunkar developed a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women in India.
BBC
October 28, 2024
...A new paper by Gaurav Chiplunkar (University of Virginia) and Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale University) argues that promoting female entrepreneurship could significantly boost women's workforce participation, as female-led businesses often create more opportunities for other women.
The authors developed a framework to measure the barriers women in India face when entering the labour force and becoming entrepreneurs.
They found substantial obstacles to women's employment and higher costs for female entrepreneurs when expanding their businesses by hiring workers. Their simulations showed that removing barriers would boost female-owned businesses, increase women’s workforce participation, and drive economic gains through higher wages, profits, and more efficient female-owned firms replacing less productive male-owned ones.