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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010

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, we...

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Stepping forward : personality traits, choice of profession, and the decision to become self-employed

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina - 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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Self-employment after socialism : intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

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

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Regional Trajectories of Entrepreneurship, Knowledge, and Growth : The Role of History and Culture

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019

an original, historical take on entrepreneurship and regional development. It is a landmark study on Germany showing that … on Germany there are clear lessons for scholars and policy-makers in all high-income countries. David J Storey … business formation in Germany 1907, 1925 and Today -- The persistence of regional entrepreneurship -- The case of East Germany …

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Entrepreneurship : Theorie, Empirie, Politik

Fritsch, Michael - 2019 - 2., überarbeitete und aktualisierte Auflage

Deutschland -- Entrepreneurial Choice: Wer gründet ein Unternehmen? Merkmale von Gründern -- Entrepreneurship als Prozess …

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Entrepreneurship : Theorie, Empirie, Politik

Fritsch, Michael - 2016 - 1. Aufl. 2016

Deutschland -- Entrepreneurial Choice: Wer gründet ein Unternehmen? Merkmale von Gründern -- Entrepreneurship als Prozess …

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Are senior entrepreneurs happier than who? : the role of income and health

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2023

entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status …

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Entrepreneurship in the Region

Fritsch, Michael (contributor); Schmude, Jürgen (contributor) - 2006

Entrepreneurship in the Region approaches many different aspects of entrepreneurship from a regional perspective. The regional influences on entrepreneurship analyzed entail regional peculiarities and disparities in new business formation processes, the success and the employment effects of new...

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