entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …

administrative and survey data and observe participants in two distinct start-up programs in Germany for five years after start-up as …

longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …

The paper makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of … entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment and as a result avoids the weakness of approaches …