The female share in management positions is quite low in Germany. The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women … there are in such positions. Men have numerous role models to follow whereas women lack this opportunity: In the executive … looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances. We compare managers and …

women. …

rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk … entrepreneurs. The empirical results confirm that persons whose risk attitudes are in the medium range survive significantly longer … as entrepreneurs than do persons with particularly low or high risks. …

precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs … private wealth balance sheets. Entrepreneurs, who face high income risk, hold more wealth than employees, but it is shown that … this is not due to precautionary motives. Entrepreneurs may rather save for old age, as they are usually not covered by …

behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are permanently facing exchange processes in the interplay with investors, sellers, and … reciprocity influence the exit probability of entrepreneurs; and iii) willingness to trust and to act reciprocally influences the … entrepreneurial development. Interestingly, entrepreneurs are more trustful than employees, but much less trustful than managers. …

, lenders may charge higher interest rates or ration credit supply, which can hamper entrepreneurship. Both aspects of a more … forgiving personal bankruptcy law are less relevant for wealthy potential. - entrepreneurs who still risk losing their wealth … entrepreneurship. …

opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative … indicate that the returns to a year of education for opportunity entrepreneurs are 3.5 percentage points higher than the paid … employees' rate of 8.1%, but 6.5 percentage points lower for necessity entrepreneurs. …