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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits' - the Big Five - on an individua's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of self-employment varies considerably across professions, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688983
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Entrepreneurship and cultural creativity
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the relationship between cultural creativity and entrepreneurship in two respects: first, cultural and personal creativity as a characteristic of self-employed individuals; second, selfemployment in professions that can be classified as belonging to the "Creative Class" as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931342
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Entry, exit and productivity empirical results for German manufacturing industries
Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003553639
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Exports and productivity growth : first evidence from a continuous treatment approach
Fryges, Helmut (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
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Export entry, export exit, and productivity in German manufacturing industries
Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
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Productivity and size of the export market evidence for West and East German plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
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Why more West than East German firms export
Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003554109
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Exports and productivity in Germany
Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003554111
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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
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Self-employment after socialism : intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009544391