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Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 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 … rate, but only a small part of their lower entry rate. -- Entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; risk aversion ; gender … in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …

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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - 2012

employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …

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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 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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Personality characteristics and the decision to become and stay self-employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011

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 …

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Trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity : do these traits impact entrepreneurial dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2010

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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Income taxes and entrepreneurial choice : empirical evidence from Germany

Fossen, Frank M. (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2006

analyse the effect of the tax cuts on transitions into and out of self-employment and on the rate of self-employment. We apply … indicate that the decrease in tax rates did not have a significant effect on the self-employment decision. …

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