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...

Vor drei Jahren widmete sich die Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in einer zusammenfassenden Metastudie der Frage nach der Stabilität der Mittelschicht in Deutschland. Die Studie kam zum Ergebnis, dass von einer Schrumpfung oder gar Erosion der Mittelschicht, anders als bei anderen Studien oder...

The jackknife is a resampling method that uses subsets of the original database by leaving out one observation at a time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only a few passes through the data. The number of passes is...

The jackknife is a resampling method that uses subsets of the original database by leaving out one observation at a time from the sample. The paper develops fast algorithms for jackknifing inequality indices with only a few passes through the data. The number of passes is independent of the...