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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 individua's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of self-employment varies considerably across professions, we...

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Entrepreneurship and cultural creativity

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010

We investigate the relationship between cultural creativity and entrepreneurship in two respects: first, cultural and personal creativity as a characteristic of self-employed individuals; second, selfemployment in professions that can be classified as belonging to the "Creative Class" as...

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

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The persistence of regional entrepreneurship : are all types of self-employment equally important?

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2015

We explore the role of different types of self-employment for a persistence of the regional level of entrepreneurship over time. Our analysis for West German regions shows relatively strong effects for the historical self- employment rate in the non-agricultural sector, particularly in...

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Business cycles, unemployment and entrepreneurial entry : first evidence from Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2013

Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively influenced by unemployment rates and that the cyclical component of …

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

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

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …

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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture : Germany 1925 - 2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012

We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...

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

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

We analyze the sources of the rise in the levels of self-employment in Germany since reunification by applying the non …-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique. This analysis is performed separately for East and West Germany in order to account … particular increase of solo-entrepreneurship. -- entrepreneurship ; Germany , non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique …

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The effect of regional entrepreneurship culture on economic development : evidence for Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2014

We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship in the mid- 1920s have higher start-up rates about 80...

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