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Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...
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and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …
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The 40 years of socialist regime in East Germany were characterized by a massive anti-entrepreneurship policy. We … investigate the reemergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany during its transformation to a market economy following the … market economy, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture. …
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entrepreneurship behavior. However, little is known about the role of the context in the relationship between personality and … entrepreneurship. This paper draws on the well-established psychological theory of vocational behavior, which emphasizes the crucial …
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In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of …. This paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing Lazear's hypothesis using a large recent …
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Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …
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This paper tests the theory recently put forward by Edward Lazear that individuals with competence in many skills should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack-of-all-trades view.
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