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Self-Employment after Socialism : Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104020
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Deindustrialization and the Polarization of Household Incomes : The Example of Urban Agglomerations in Germany
Goebel, Jan - 2015
rural regions. The income polarization in Germany is likely to have multiple causes, some of which are directly linked to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022020
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Exploring the Linkage of Spatial Indicators from Remote Sensing Data with Survey Data – The Case of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and 3D City Models
Goebel, Jan; Wurm, Michael; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
This paper demonstrates the spatial evaluation of survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study using geo-coordinates and spatially relevant indicators from remote sensing data. By geocoding the addresses of survey households with block-level geographic precision (while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196206
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How Natural Disasters Can Affect Environmental Concerns, Risk Aversion, and Even Politics : Evidence from Fukushima and Three European Countries
Goebel, Jan; Krekel, Christian; Tiefenbach, Tim; … - 2015
preferences in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. In these countries, overall life satisfaction did not significantly decrease, but … oldest reactors. In Germany, political support for the Greens increased significantly, whereas in Switzerland and the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134806
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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2013
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits — the Big Five — on an individual’s decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044236
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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2011
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits — the Big Five — on an individual’s decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187263