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employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …
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increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these … distribution ; demography ; household size ; decomposition ; Germany …
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increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes, which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between … ; household structure ; SOEP ; Germany …
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We survey samples of German firms and households to document novel stylized facts about the extent of information frictions among the two groups. First, firms' expectations about macroeconomic variables are closer to expert forecasts and less dispersed than households', consistent with higher...
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Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...
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development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits … into self-employment and survival of self-employed persons in Germany. The empirical analysis reveals that among the … parental self-employment. -- entrepreneurship ; personality ; Big Five ; risk aversion ; locus of control …
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paper investigates how non-compete policies affect different types of self-employment. We exploit policy reforms in Utah and … Massachusetts in 2016 and 2018, which decreased the enforceability of non-compete covenants, as quasi-experiments. We separate self-employment … into self-employment with incorporated businesses (as a proxy for entrepreneurship) and self-employment with unincorporated …
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lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about 1,000 adults). In this preregistered study we replicate these results … no statistically significant associations between 2D:4D and self-employment and thus cannot confirm the findings of … change in self-employment for a one standard deviation change in the 2D:4D when we pool results for men and women (the …
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We investigate the effect of personal income tax (PIT) rates on the number of hours entrepreneurs work weekly. Using the rotating panel data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey from 2003 to 2019, we estimate instrumental variable regressions in first...
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