This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal characteristics were screened by different methods, namely a one-day assessment center (AC) and a standardized ...
Objectives - Taking a cross-national comparative perspective, we investigate linkages between volunteer work, informal helping, and caring among Europeans aged 50 or older: Is the relationship between these activities characterized by complementarity or by substitution? Is there evidence for the existence of (unobserved) personality traits that foster engagement independent of a specific activity? ...
Die psychologische Persönlichkeitsforschung hat in den letzten Jahren zu einem weitgehenden Konsens hinsichtlich einer Taxonomie von Persönlichkeitsdimensionen gefunden, die nun auch andere Disziplinen zur Erforschung von Ursachen und strukturell bedeutsamen Konsequenzen von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften einlädt. Die sogenannten Big Five repräsentieren dabei fünf breite Dimensionen, in denen sich Individuen ...
The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. This paper investigates how individuals' attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime in which they live. The German reunification is a unique natural experiment that allows us to conduct such a study. Using data from the German General Social Survey ...