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Searching for the entrepreneurial personality : new evidence and avenues for further research
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011
Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … for entrepreneurship research. -- entrepreneurship ; personality characteristics ; risk aversion ; trust ; autonomy …What makes the entrepreneurial personality is the key question we seek to answer in the special issue of the Journal of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309604
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“I want to, but I also need to” : start-ups resulting from opportunity and necessity
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2009
unemployment. -- Entrepreneurship ; push and pull motives ; survival and failure ; job creation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932123
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Risk attitudes of nascent entrepreneurs : new evidence from an experimentally-validated survey
Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Fossen, Frank M. (contributor) - 2006
unemployment or inactivity risk attitudes do not seem to play a role in the decision process. -- risk attitudes ; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003333112
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Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; occupational choice ; immigrants ; wage ; differentials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001790863
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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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The impact of risk aversion, role models, and the regional milieu on the transition from unemployment to self-employment : empirical evidence for Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2002
The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410741
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The rise of female entrepreneurs : new evidence on gender differences in liquidity constraints
Sauer, Robert M.; Wilson, Tanya - 2015
Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510506
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Microentrepreneurs' gender difference in labor demand
Oladipo, Oluwasheyi; Shim, Hyoung Suk - 2022
This paper empirically examines firm owners' gender difference in labor demand. We estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) of female ownership on employment of the firm using the 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS), provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013448436
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Entrepreneurship from scratch : lessons on the entry decision into self-employment from transition economies
Earle, John S.; Saková, Zuzana - 1999
-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316912
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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009
spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. -- Entrepreneurship ; self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003926421