Die Erweiterung der EU im Jahr 2004 hat sich auch auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt bemerkbar gemacht. Vor allem wurde von Arbeitsmigranten die Möglichkeit genutzt, eine selbständige Beschäftigung aufzunehmen. Trotz Hindernissen bei der Zuwanderung und der Gewährung von Arbeitsgenehmigungen hat auch die abhängige Beschäftigung von Personen aus den Beitrittsländern zugelegt. Insgesamt war aber das Wachstum ...
This paper compares two prominent empirical measures of individual risk attitudes - the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery-choice task and the multi-item questionnaire advocated by Dohmen, Falk, Huffman, Schupp, Sunde and Wagner (forthcoming) - with respect to (a) their within-subject stability over time (one year) and (b) their correlation with actual risk-taking behaviour in the lab - here the amount ...
This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits and further personality characteristics, which are more specifically related to entrepreneurial tasks, influence entry into self-employment and survival ...
Exploiting Tangshan 1976 - the deadliest earthquake in the 20th century - as a source of exogenous variation, we estimate the long-run effect of a historical shock on contemporary socio-economic outcomes. Cohorts born after the earthquake were not only larger, but exhibit lower school completion rates, particularly among the female today. Despite lower schooling levels, there is no evidence for adverse ...
