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Matching Skills of Individuals and Firms Along the Career Path
Bublitz, Elisabeth - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
data for Germany, show that the degree to which firm knowledge is portable depends on skill similarities between the firms … workers. Firm and occupational skill distances, that is firm and occupation specific knowledge, both are negatively related to …
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Stepping Forward: Personality Traits, Choice of Profession, and the Decision to Become Self-Employed
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single act...
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