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Born entrepreneur? : adolescents’ personality characteristics and self-employment in adulthood
Viinikainen, Jutta; Heineck, Guido; Böckerman, Petri; … - 2016
Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by … also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441301
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Born entrepreneur? : adolescents' personality characteristics and self-employment in adulthood
Viinikainen, Jutta; Heineck, Guido; Böckerman, Petri; … - 2016
Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by … also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454428
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Entrepreneurial success and subjective well-being : worries about the business explain one's well-being loss from self-employment
Binder, Martin - 2017
, focussing specifically on poor performance enterprises, a prevalent but disregarded type of entrepreneurship. Using German panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782009
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Historical roots of entrepreneurial culture and innovation activity : an analysis for German regions
Fritsch, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018
selfemployment in a region and the presence of people with an entrepreneurial personality structure today. Our measure for a regional … culture of entrepreneurship is positively related not only to the level of new business formation but also the amount of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872288
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Overoptimistic entrepreneurs : predicting wellbeing consequences of self-employment
Odermatt, Reto; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Stutzer, Alois - 2017
satisfaction with their actual life satisfaction five years later on. This overoptimism also holds for those entrepreneurs who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738890
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Stepping forward : personality traits, choice of profession, and the decision to become self-employed ; conference paper
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina - 2013
We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single act...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342188
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Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 42 (2014) 4, pp. 787-814
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010474961
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The persistence of regional entrepreneurship : are all types of self-employment equally important?
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2015
We explore the role of different types of self-employment for a persistence of the regional level of entrepreneurship … regarded a rather weak form of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288768
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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2014
employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university … distribution in their previous salaried job. Surprisingly, the variation in hourly incomes of solo entrepreneurs is higher than … that of entrepreneurs with employees. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433906
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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014
employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university … distribution in their previous salaried job. Surprisingly, the variation in hourly incomes of solo entrepreneurs is higher than … that of entrepreneurs with employees. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438895