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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325824
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and Do Family Background Variables Make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Jörn H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart F.; Thurik, A. Roy - 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600971
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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
classified as being in the "creative class" as compared to the noncreative class. The analysis is based on micro data for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600985
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The self-employment of immigrants and natives in Sweden: To what extent is it the 'immigrant group' or the 'labour market context' that affects the self-employment of individuals i...
Ohlsson, Henrik; Broomé, Per; Bevelander, Pieter - 2010
Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the … register data on individuals for the year of 2007 for the entire Swedish population we have in this study a unique opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269889
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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282246
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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and … entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282293
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It's the opportunity cost, stupid!: How self-employment responds to financial incentives of return, risk and skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282326
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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
classified as being in the 'creative class' as compared to the noncreative class. The analysis is based on micro data for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286449
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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and … entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286464
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Testing the 'Residential Rootedness': Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK
Reuschke, Darja; Ham, Maarten Van - 2011
Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event' , the literature argues that selfemployed workers and … Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601055