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Are Risk Attitudes and Individualism Predictors of Entrepreneurship? A Multivariate Analysis of Romanian Data
Hatos, Adrian; Hatos, Roxana; Bădulescu, Alina; … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 17 (2015) 38, pp. 148-161
entrepreneurship. More specific, it focuses on elaborating and empirically testing hypotheses related to structural push and pull … analysis confirm the importance of risk aversion for entrepreneurship, as expected, but reject the hypothesis of a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724934
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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - 2009
the likelihood that he/she starts a business.Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325694
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Heterogeneity in subjective wellbeing: An application to occupational allocation in Africa
Falco, Paolo; Maloney, William F.; Rijkers, Bob; … - 2012
By exploiting recent advances in mixed (stochastic parameter) ordered probit estimators and a unique longitudinal dataset from Ghana, this paper examines the distribution of subjective wellbeing across sectors of employment and offers insights into the functioning of developing country labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291445
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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance
Ejrnaes, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - 2008
We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325911
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Insurance, entrepreneurial start-up, and performance
Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - 2014
Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390736
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Insurance, Entrepreneurial Start-Up, and Performance
Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - 2014
Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377222
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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282293
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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286464
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Self-employment: A Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data
Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260894
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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits - the Big Five - on an individual's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600985