Similar Search Results

"Surfeiting, the appetite may sicken": Entrepreneurship and the happiness of nations

Naudé, Wim; Amoros, José Ernesto; Cristi, Oscar - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2012

entrepreneurs to start-up new businesses? In this paper we survey the literature on entrepreneurship and happiness, and use various … data sources, including from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, to find tentative evidence of an inverse U …-shape relationship between (opportunity) entrepreneurship and national happiness. We find little evidence that a nation's happiness …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653061

Who Starts a Business and Who Is Self-Employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422061

What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay?: Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068701

Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of an entrepreneur requires to make risky decisions in uncertain environments and hence that more risk-averse...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068847

Self-Employment - a Way to End Unemployment?: Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069100

The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925 - 2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896194

Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Choice and Risk Aversion: A Decomposition Based on a Microeconometric Model

Fossen, Frank M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? Women have both to a lower entry rate into selfemployment and a higher exit rate in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which includes a standard risk aversion parameter. As inputs...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461826

Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961524