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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits - the Big Five - on an individual's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600985
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Entrepreneurship and Creative Professions: A Micro-Level Analysis
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
It has widely been recognized that creativity plays an immense role not only for arts, sciences, and technology, but also for entrepreneurship, innovation, and thus, economic growth. We analyze the level and the determinants of self-employment in creative professions at the level of individuals....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896270
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Self-Employment after Socialism: Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010787010
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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits - the Big Five - on an individual's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784516
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Dynamics of income rank volatility: Evidence from Germany and the US
Chauvel, Louis; Hartung, Anne; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2017
This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011748468
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Who identifies with the AfD? Explorative analyses in longitudinal perspective
Baron, Daniel - 2018
Recently, international scholars found two factors that account for partisanship with right-wing populist parties: feelings of economic insecurity and perceived cultural threat. When explaining increasing partisanship with the Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, AfD), the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912134
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Happiness, domains of life satisfaction, perceptions, and valuation differences across genders
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani; Farrington, Stephen - 2021
significant effect on SWB. Satisfaction with family life and health have the largest while satisfaction with income has the lowest …'s happiness is more valued by female respondents. Satisfaction with household compared to personal income has a larger effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549993
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Time, income and subjective wellbeing - 20 years of interdependent multidimensional polarization in Germany
Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2021
Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income … of multidimensional polarization we extend the income dimension by time, a pre-requisite and fundamental resource of any … polarization we allow compensation between time and income, parameters of a CES-type subjective well-being function, where a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793241
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Messung von Ausmaß, Intensität und Konzentration des Einkommens- und Vermögensreichtums in Deutschland
Rosemann, Martin; Tiefensee, Anita - 2014
In this paper we analyze the upper edge of income and wealth distribution in Germany with data from the German Socio …), how much income or wealth they have on average (intensity), and how these financial resources are distributed among the … the dynamics of the upper edge of income and wealth distribution. For example, we find that in comparison to the average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334240
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Fast methods for jackknifing inequality indices
Karoly, Lynn A.; Schröder, Carsten - 2014
The jackknife is a resampling method that uses subsets of the original database by leaving out one observation at a time from the sample. The paper develops fast algorithms for jackknifing inequality indices with only a few passes through the data. The number of passes is independent of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343328