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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963624
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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963639
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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
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Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?
Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765852
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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial … and further personality characteristics, which are more specifically related to entrepreneurial tasks, influence entry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869171
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks on an 11-point scale, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068645
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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively … buyers, as well as needing to trust others and reciprocate with their network. We base our analysis on the German Socio …-Economic Panel and recently introduced questions about trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity to examine the extent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765038
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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963826
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Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined?: Evidence from British Immigrants
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604529
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A League of Their Own: Female Soccer, Male Legacy and Women's Empowerment
Cho, Seo-Young - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
This paper investigates whether male soccer tradition can predict the success of female soccer. Different from the existing literature, this paper utilizes panel data covering 175 countries during the 1991-2011 period, capturing country heterogeneity effects and time trends. An instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607548