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Women and minorities in business : demographic reviews of business ownership
Gilbert, Elena B. (contributor) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009542855
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Self-employment after socialism: Intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291817
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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture: Germany 1925 - 2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012
and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291827
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How much of a socialist legacy? The reemergence of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation to a market economy
Fritsch, Michael; Bublitz, Elisabeth; Rusakova, Alina; … - 2012
The 40 years of socialist regime in East Germany were characterized by a massive anti-entrepreneurship policy. We … investigate the reemergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany during its transformation to a market economy following the … market economy, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291841
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291855
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Is entrepreneurial success predictable? An ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297258
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Entrepreneurship in the region: Breeding ground for nascent enterpreneurs?
Mueller, Pamela - 2005
Statistics to study nascent entrepreneurship. In particular, micro data from the GSOEP characterizing employees and nascent …-up activity, strongly indicate that regions with strong tradition in entrepreneurship are a breeding ground for nascent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298504
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Entry regulation and entrepreneurship: Empirical evidence from a German natural experiment
Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2010
The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303822
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Personality characteristics and the decision to become and stay self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2011
one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304696
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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? Native men, Turks, and other migrants in Germany
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Constant, … - 2003
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324207