Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household … panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by … becoming self-employed later in life and 2) of being more successful as an entrepreneur, as approximated by sales. Our results … also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by … becoming self-employed later in life and 2) of being more successful as an entrepreneur, as approximated by sales. Our results … also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

Does personality matter? Is an individual who is open to experience more or less likely to become an entrepreneur? Is … it better to score low or high in agreeableness for surviving as an entrepreneur? To the extent that personality captures … entrepreneurship since 2000 and shows that possessing certain personality characteristics will make it more likely that an individual …

entrepreneurs. In the context of entrepreneurship, profiling should therefore only be seen as a first step on the way from the usual …Based on a trait-oriented approach, Big Five personality traits have been repeatedly shown to affect entrepreneurial … entrepreneurship. Moreover, we compare prototyping with entrepreneurial profiling, another person-oriented approach to the Big Five …

Personality is a key driver of self-employment decisions. For this reason, the personality traits of entrepreneurs or … entrepreneur - as a classic form of strategic entrepreneurship. Based on a large, representative German household panel data set … craft entrepreneurs from other types of entrepreneurship. The paper concludes with implications for policy and research. …

closer look at this issue by examining the personality characteristics of business owners. Our results confirm that an … individual's personality affects the likelihood of self-employment, but certain traits have a different effect in the case of … human personality. Thus, personality traits can influence self-employment decisions differently, depending on the sector or …