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A note on the relationship between television viewing and individual happiness

Kataria, Mitesh; Regner, Tobias - 2009

In a recently published article, Bruni and Stanca (2008) suggest that television viewing has a negative impact on life satisfaction. In this note we argue that the empirical approach they use (an approach that omits the main effect of TV viewing in life satisfaction) is problematic. We estimate...

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Studying deception without deceiving participants : an experiment of deception experiments

Alberti, Federica; Güth, Werner - 2012

Banning deception in economic experiments does not exclude experiments with participants in the role of experimenters who can gain by deceiving those in the role of participants. We compare treatments with and without possible deception by experimenter-participants to test whether deception...

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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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Occupational choice and self-employment : are they related?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael - 2013

Often, a person will become an entrepreneur only after a period of dependent employment, suggesting that occupational choices precede entrepreneurial choices. We investigate the relationship between occupational choice and self-employment. The findings suggest that the occupational choice of...

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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 for the East German recovery of...

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Persistence of entrepreneurship in different historical contexts

Fritsch, Michael; Pylak, Korneliusz; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019

Persistence of entrepreneurship over longer periods of time could indicate a culture of entrepreneurship among the local population that may be an important factor for regional development, but does persistence of economic activity require cultural transmission? We exploit the diverse historical...

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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 conditions, labor market regulations, quality of government, and perception of corruption for individual well-being among self-employed and paid employed individuals. Well-being is...

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Does persistence in start-up activity reflect persistence in social capital?

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2015

Emerging literature shows that spatial differences in entrepreneurship tend to persist over longer periods of time. A potential mechanism underlying this pronounced persistence is that high levels of start-up activity lead to the emergence of a regional culture and a supporting environment in...

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The value orientation of entrepreneurs in challenging institutional contexts : insights from a unique historical episode

Wyrwich, Michael - 2020

Previous research suggests that entrepreneurs value autonomy more than non-entrepreneurs do across countries and …-average endorsement of autonomy as an important societal value among people that were entrepreneurs in the autocratic anti … our analysis suggest that the mark-up entrepreneurs reveal with respect to valuing autonomy found in the previous …

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Regional trajectories of entrepreneurship : the effect of socialism and transition

Fritsch, Michael; Kristalova, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - 2020

We investigate how major historical shocks affect regional trajectories of economic activity. To this end, we conduct a comparative analysis of the development of entrepreneurship in East and West Germany after World War II. The introduction of an anti-entrepreneurial socialist economy in East...

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