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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826247
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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
classified as being in the "creative class" as compared to the noncreative class. The analysis is based on micro data for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826989
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Entrepreneurial success and subjective well-being : worries about the business explain one's well-being loss from self-employment
Binder, Martin - 2017
, focussing specifically on poor performance enterprises, a prevalent but disregarded type of entrepreneurship. Using German panel … data (1984-2015), I find that self-employment (compared to employment) typically negatively impacts on life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782009
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Occupational choice and self-employment : are they related?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael - 2013
choice ; occupation-specific determinants of entrepreneurship ; risk preferences ; taste for variety …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687728
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The effect of self-employment on income inequality
Schneck, Stefan - 2018
self-employment rates. With representative German data and unconditional quantile regression analysis we show that an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957495
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The impact on earnings when entering self-employment : evidence for Germany
Martin, Johannes - 2013
Using data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) earnings differentials between self-employed and wage …-employed workers in the German labor market are explored. Previous research based on US data reports lower incomes for entrepreneurs … ; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009707609
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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - 2012
; necessity ; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615133
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Testing the "residential rootedness"-hypothesis of self-employment for Germany and the UK
Reuschke, Darja; Ham, Maarten van - 2011
Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event' , the literature argues that selfemployed workers and … Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009389123
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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intention : international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling
Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the … shares, students’ academic skills, and parents’ entrepreneurial occupation. -- private school competition ; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975560
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Indian entrepreneurial success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - 2013
Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census … data from the three largest developed countries receiving Indian immigrants in the world -- the United States, United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212363