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Age-specific entrepreneurship and PAYG public pensions in Germany
Heer, Burkhard; Trede, Mark - 2020
We present new empirical evidence on the distribution of earnings, income and wealth among entrepreneurs in Germany. We … Germany does not help to improve its fiscal sustainability, and only an increase in the retirement age to 70 years will help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249285
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Age-Specific Entrepreneurship and PAYG Public Pensions in Germany
Heer, Burkhard - 2020
We present new empirical evidence on the distribution of earnings, income and wealth among entrepreneurs in Germany. We … Germany does not help to improve its fiscal sustainability, and only an increase in the retirement age to 70 years will help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827665
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The role of wealth in the start-up decision of new self-employed : evidence from a pension policy reform
Li, Yue; Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Hochgürtel, Stefan; … - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 41 (2016), pp. 280-290
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703526
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The Role of Wealth in the Start-Up Decision of New Self-Employed : Evidence from a Pension Policy Reform
Li, Yue - 2015
We used administrative micro panel data from the Netherlands to study the wealth effect on the transitions of workers from wage-employment to self-employment. To isolate the causal effect of wealth, we used a pension system reform in 2006 as a quasi-natural experiment. With the onset of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016875
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Multilevel transmission of cultural attitudes and entrepreneurial intention : evidence from high-school students
Tubadji, Annie; Santarelli, Enrico; Patuelli, Roberto - 2016
Intention toward any occupational choice can be widely categorized as a rational choice process combined with a subjective attitude function. There is extensive literature dealing with the formation of intention toward entrepreneurship in adolescents, in particular as a result of either parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703426
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The role of novelty-seeking traits in contemporary knowledge creation
Gören, Erkan - 2017 - This Version: September 2017
This paper hypothesizes and empirically establishes the persistent effects of novelty-seeking traits on crosscountry differences in scientific knowledge creation. I use data on the prevalence of specific allele variants of the human DRD4 exon III gene, which population geneticists have linked to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724595
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TV and entrepreneurship
Slavtchev, Viktor; Wyrwich, Michael - 2017
-natural experiment, namely that during the division of Germany after WWI into the capitalistic West Germany and the socialistic East … Germany, West TV was exogenously available only in some regions of the latter. Using regional and individual data, we show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704805
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TV and entrepreneurship
Slavtchev, Viktor; Wyrwich, Michael - 2017
effects, we utilise a quasi-natural experiment setting. During the division of Germany after WWII into West Germany with a … free-market economy and the socialistic East Germany with centrally-planned economy, some East German regions had access to … socialistic regime in East Germany entrepreneurship was highly regulated and virtually impossible and that the prevalent formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712883
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Born to be an entrepreneur? : how cultural origin affects entrepreneurship
Erhardt, Katharina; Haenni, Simon - 2018
Persistent differences in entrepreneurial activity between regions and countries remain unexplained. This paper argues that cultural heritage is an important determinant. We exploit a quasi-experimental setting comparing entrepreneurial activities of individuals with different cultural ancestry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944313
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Born to be an entrepreneur? : how cultural origin affects entrepreneurship
Erhardt, Katharina; Haenni, Simon - 2018
Persistent differences in entrepreneurial activity between regions and countries remain unexplained. This paper argues that cultural heritage is an important determinant. We exploit a quasi-experimental setting comparing entrepreneurial activities of individuals with different cultural ancestry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951988