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Ñopo, Hugo - 2007

employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch …

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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality : New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021

Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … for entrepreneurship research …

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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021

This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...

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Born Entrepreneur? Adolescents' Personality Characteristics and Self-Employment in Adulthood

Viinikainen, Jutta - 2016

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship …

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Who are the Microenterprise Owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. De Soto

de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher M. - 2021

Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...

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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed

Caliendo, Marco - 2011

one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than …

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Personality Psychology and Economics

Almlund, Mathilde - 2011

This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is...

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Are Young People's Educational Outcomes Linked to Their Sense of Control?

Baron, Juan D. - 2011

This paper analyzes the link between young people's sense (locus) of control over their lives and their investments in education. We find that young people with a more internal locus of control have a higher probability of finishing secondary school and, conditional on completion, meeting the...

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Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies

Caliendo, Marco - 2011

Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his...

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Financial Stress, Family Conflict, and Youths' Successful Transition to Adult Roles

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

We analyze the effect of mothers' and youths' reports of family financial stress and conflict on youths' transitions into adult roles. We find that mothersﾒ reports of financial stresses and borrowing constraints are associated with earlier transitions to inactivity and public assistance,...

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