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Inequality and income dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, Johannes - 2022
lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …
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What Makes an Employer?
Caliendo, Marco - 2019
As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel...
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Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Choice and Risk Aversion : A Decomposition Based on a Microeconometric Model
Fossen, Frank M. - 2009
and dependent employment are estimated separately by gender, accounting for non-random selection into the employment …Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? Women have both to a lower entry rate into self-employment and a higher exit rate … in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …
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Precautionary and Entrepreneurial Saving : New Evidence from German Households
Fossen, Frank M.; Rostam‐Afschar, Davud - 2009
The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper...
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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally Validated Survey
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2006
true only for people coming out of regular employment, whereas for individuals coming out of unemployment or inactivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297253
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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 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/10005859629
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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs:New Evidence from anExperimentally-Validated Survey
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2006
, thatthis is true only for people coming out of regular employment, whereas for individuals comingout of unemployment or …
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Risk Attitudes and Private Business Equity
Fossen, Frank M. - 2012
Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite comparably low returns and high risk? This paper connects several streams of literature to shed some light on this puzzle and suggests possible future research avenues. Key...
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The Private Equity Premium Puzzle Revisited : New Evidence on the Role of Heterogeneous Risk Attitudes
Fossen, Frank M. - 2009
The empirical finding that entrepreneurs tend to invest a large share of their wealth in their own firms despite comparably low returns and high risk has become known as the private equity premium puzzle. This paper provides evidence supporting the hypothesis that lower risk aversion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158383
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Would a Flat Tax Stimulate Entrepreneurship in Germany? : A Behavioural Microsimulation Analysis Allowing for Risk
Fossen, Frank M. - 2008
-ante effects of the German tax reform 2000 and of two hypothetical flat tax scenarios on entries into and exits out of self-employment … structural microeconometric models of transitions into and out of self-employment. These structural models include an estimated … people from choosing self-employment. This is explained by the reduction of entrepreneurs' income risk through progressive …
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