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Born entrepreneur? : adolescents’ personality characteristics and self-employment in adulthood

Viinikainen, Jutta; Heineck, Guido; Böckerman, Petri; … - 2016

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

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Born entrepreneur? : adolescents' personality characteristics and self-employment in adulthood

Viinikainen, Jutta; Heineck, Guido; Böckerman, Petri; … - 2016

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2014

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our … employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

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The effect of regional entrepreneurship culture on economic development : evidence for Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2014

We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this … measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship … a regional culture of entrepreneurship is an important resource for regional growth. …

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Self-employment and subjective well-being

Binder, Martin; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin - 2021

Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual's experience of being self-employed, the...

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Self-employment and subjective well-being

Binder, Martin; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin - 2021

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2D:4D and self-employment using SOEP data : a replication study

Fossen, Frank M.; Neyse, Levent; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2020

The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...

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Opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship : two components of business creation

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - 2018

A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter …-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship, there are many challenges to creating a definition that is both objective and empirically feasible. We propose an …

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Are risk attitudes and individualism predictors of entrepreneurship in Romania? : a multivariate analysis of Romanian data

Hatos, Adrian; Hatos, Roxana; Bădulescu, Alina; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 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 …

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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis

Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...

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