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A physician with a soul of a cook? Entrepreneurial personality across occupations

Sorgner, Alina - 2012

entrepreneurship behavior. However, little is known about the role of the context in the relationship between personality and … entrepreneurship. This paper draws on the well-established psychological theory of vocational behavior, which emphasizes the crucial …

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Drivers of self-employment: A multivariate decomposition analysis for the case of Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2013

for the East German recovery of entrepreneurship after 40 years of socialist regime. We find different results for self … particular increase of solo-entrepreneurship. …

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Entrepreneurship and creative professions: A micro-level analysis

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina - 2013

also for entrepreneurship, innovation, and thus, economic growth. We analyze the level and the determinants of self … entrepreneur. Investigating the determinants of entrepreneurship within the creative class as compared to non-creative professions …

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Self-employment and well-being across institutional contexts

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018

-employed people as well as of paid employees varies considerably across countries. Our results indicate that entrepreneurship …

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Entrepreneurship and job satisfaction: The role of age

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018

This paper investigates the relationship between job satisfaction and age for self-employed persons as compared to paid employees. While, on average, there are higher levels of job satisfaction in self-employment as compared to paid employment, we find that an individual's age is an important...

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Types of institutions and well-being of self-employed and paid employees in Europe

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019

This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship- facilitating entry …

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2014

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500153

Historical shocks and persistence of economic activity: Evidence from a unique natural experiment

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael; … - 2016

This paper investigates the persistence of entrepreneurship in the region of Kaliningrad between 1925 and 2010. During … suggests that persistence of entrepreneurship is higher in regions with a history of successful entrepreneurship. That is, in …

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