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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees
van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558947
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395440
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Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur?
van Praag, Mirjam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession 'entrepreneurship' shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … be expected and respect. Furthermore, our results imply that entrepreneurship is associated with hard work, high incomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030890
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Switching Costs and Occupational Transition into Self-Employment
Henley, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Contemporary dynamic theories of self-employment choice focus on occupational switching costs, and the risk associated with entrepreneurial income streams. However little or no previous research has addressed the question of what factors determine the length of time that it takes aspiring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566600
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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10005822682
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Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity: It Pays to Be Self-Employed
Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany – self-employed and salaried businesswomen – and investigate whether ethnicity is important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763778
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"I Want to, But I Also Need to": Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497009
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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … for entrepreneurship research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147304
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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764580
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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship – education – and approximately three times larger than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868132