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culture of entrepreneurship is positively related not only to the level of new business formation but also the amount of …
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A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …-entrepreneurial self-employed. This finding highlights that entrepreneurship is distinct from other types of self …
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also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …
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also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …
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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...
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entrepreneurship since 2000 and shows that possessing certain personality characteristics will make it more likely that an individual … into entrepreneurship. Further, entrepreneurs are more likely to hire, the higher they score in risk tolerance, trust …
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entrepreneurship. Moreover, we compare prototyping with entrepreneurial profiling, another person-oriented approach to the Big Five …, which assumes that low levels of agreeableness and high levels of all other traits describe a particular entrepreneurship … entrepreneurs. In the context of entrepreneurship, profiling should therefore only be seen as a first step on the way from the usual …
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Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...
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We investigate the relationship between cultural creativity and entrepreneurship in two respects: first, cultural and … individuals of the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP). We find, indeed, some significant links between entrepreneurship and … cultural creativity that deserve further investigation. -- Entrepreneurship ; new business formation ; cultural creativity …
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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...
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