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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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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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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

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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 conditions …

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Labor market opportunities for women in the digital age

Krieger-Boden, Christiane; Sorgner, Alina - 2018

labor markets, financial markets, and entrepreneurship. Currently, digitalization seems to favor female labor force, since …

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Calling Baumol: What Telephones Can Tell Us about the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Talent in the Face of Radical Institutional Changes

Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2021

commitment to socialism reflects rent-seeking, a type of unproductive entrepreneurship. Once institutions change radically, their … entrepreneurial efforts are redirected towards productive entrepreneurship (start-up activity). Regime commitment is captured by … that this group of people were more likely to have an entrepreneurship- prone personality profile, had a higher propensity …

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COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship

Sorgner, Alina - 2023

This chapter presents the results of a systematic review of literature (SLR) on impacts of Covid-19 on entrepreneurship …. Emerging themes include policy responses to the Covid-19 crisis and their (unintended) consequences for entrepreneurship, as … their physical and mental health, represent a relatively low share of the literature on Covid-19 and entrepreneurship …

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