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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 …
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438895
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438045
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Do entrepreneurs really earn less? : conference paper
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014
We compare, based on German data, the income of self-employed individuals with and without employees with the income of dependently employed individuals. Our results show that self-employed with employees tend to earn significantly higher incomes than their salaried counterparts, while with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485982
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Why did self-employment increase so strongly in Germany?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2015
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473186
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Why did self-employment increase so strongly in Germany?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2015 - This version: January 2015
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479957
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Self-Employment as career choice : an empirical study on personal and environmental sources of entrepreneurial development
Sorgner, Alina - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009745918
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A physician with a soul of a cook? : entrepreneurial personality across occupations
Sorgner, Alina - 2012
entrepreneurship behavior. However, little is known about the role of the context in the relationship between personality and … entrepreneurship. This paper draws on the well-established psychological theory of vocational behavior, which emphasizes the crucial … occupations. -- entrepreneurship ; vocational choice ; Big Five ; occupational environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665506
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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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Occupational choice and self-employment : are they related?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael - 2013
choice ; occupation-specific determinants of entrepreneurship ; risk preferences ; taste for variety …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687728