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Self-Employment after Socialism : Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital

Fritsch, Michael - 2012

post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an …

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Stepping Forward : Personality Traits, Choice of Profession, and the Decision to Become Self-Employed

Fritsch, Michael - 2013

We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least in 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...

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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2013

We investigate the effect of broad personality traits — the Big Five — on an individual’s decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions,...

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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2011

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Natural gas supply: No need for another Baltic Sea pipeline

Neumann, Anne; Göke, Leonard; Holz, Franziska; … - In: DIW Weekly Report 8 (2018) 27, pp. 241-248

The construction of a second Baltic Sea natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany (Nord Stream 2) is very … that it is a profitable, private-sector investment project that is necessary to secure natural gas supplies for Germany and … gas supplies for Germany and Europe. The energy consumption forecasts on which the project is based, especially the EU …

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Successful climate protection via rapid coal phaseout in Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia

Göke, Leonard; Kittel, Martin; Kemfert, Claudia; … - In: DIW Weekly Report 8 (2018) 33, pp. 301-311

Power generation from lignite and hard coal was responsible for more than a quarter of German greenhouse gas emissions in 2016. Of all federal states, North Rhine-Westphalia is by far the largest carbon emitter. The Growth, Structural Change and Regional Development Commission (also known as...

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Nuclear turn: Closing down nuclear power plants opens up prospects for the final repository site search

Kendziorski, Mario; Kemfert, Claudia; Präger, Fabian; … - In: DIW Weekly Report 11 (2021) 47, pp. 359-366

in Germany will come to an end in 2022. Due to the German power system's sufficient capacities-in 2020, the sector …

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