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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality:New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

Economic Psychology on “Personality and Entrepreneurship”.The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … entrepreneurship research.... …

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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity:Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in bothpositively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variablesof social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurswho are permanently...

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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity intoentrepreneurial positions based on fixed individual …

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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship:The Role of Extreme Events

Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extremeevents – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions ofentrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure instarting a business...

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Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns

Berglann, Helge; Moen, Espen; Røed, Knut; Skogstrøm, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionallycomprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existingstudies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self … that entrepreneurship tends to be profitable. It also raisesincome uncertainty, but the most successful quartile gains much …

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Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?

Parker, Simon C. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

employer (‘nascent intrapreneurship’) or independently(‘nascent entrepreneurship’). Analysis of a nationally representative …

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China’s Latent Human Capital Investment:Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top

Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

In this paper we provide an overview of China’s human capital strategy and educationalachievements over the last two decades. While every one acknowledges China as aneconomic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China’s notable achievements ineducation as well as its...

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How Does Entry Regulation Infl uence Entry intoSelf-Employment and Occupational Mobility?

Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra Emmi - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affectsentry into self-employment and occupational mobility. We exploit the German reunification asa natural experiment and identify regulatory effects by comparing differences betweenregulated occupations and...

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The Role of Profit Sharing in a Dual Labour Marketwith Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partlyimperfect dual domestic labour markets, where high skilled workers participate in firm’s profitvia profit sharing: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexibleoutsourcing? What is the...

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Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market?Accessions, Separations and Minimum Wage Effects

Dube, Arindrajit; Lester, T. William; Reich, Michael - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We measure labor market frictions using a strategy that bridges design-based and structuralapproaches: estimating an equilibrium search model using reduced-form minimum wageelasticities identified from border discontinuities and fitted with Bayesian and LIML methods.We begin by providing the...

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