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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), we analyze whether necessity entrepreneurs differ from opportunity entrepreneurs in terms of self-employment duration. Using univariate statistics, we find that opportunity entrepreneurs remain in self-employment longer than necessity entrepreneurs. However, after controlling for the entrepreneurs’ education in the professional area where ...
In:
Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade
9 (2009), 2, 117-337
| Jörn Block, Philipp Sandner
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Starting a business involves risk and, thus, requires a risk-taking attitude. The concept of risk and entrepreneurship has been widely discussed in the entrepreneurship literature; most studies compare entrepreneurs with nonentrepreneurs such as managers or bankers. So far, little research exists on the risk attitudes of the different types of entrepreneurs—those who pursue a new business because of ...
In:
Journal of Small Business Management
53 (2015), 1, 183-206
| Joern Block, Philipp Sandner, Frank Spiegel
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Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instru-mental variables can provide a way out. However, two questions remain: whether endogeneity is really present and whether ...
In:
Entrepreneurship Research Journal
2 (2012), 3, 1-29
| Jörn H. Block, Lennart F. Hoogerheide, A. Roy Thurik
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2006,
(IZA DP No. 2537)
| Holger Bonin, Amelie F. Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
In:
Applied Economics Letters
16 (2009), 15, 1581-1586
| Holger Bonin, Amelie F. Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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This paper investigates to what extent individuals' risk preferences are correlated with the cross-sectional earnings risk of their occupation. We exploit data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, which contains a direct survey question about willingness to take risks that has been shown to be a behaviorally valid measure of risk aversion. As a measure of earnings risk, we use the cross-sectional ...
In:
Labour Economics
14 (2007), 6, 926-937
| Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2001,
(IZA DP No. 413)
| Holger Bonin, Rob Euwals
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As an example of the adjustment of behavior formed in a centrally planned economy and exposed to a free market economy, the paper studies the development of labor force participation by East German women after unification. To isolate the role of participation behavior from that of individual characteristics, we develop a panel data model that simultaneously explains participation, employment and wages. ...
In:
Applied Economics Quarterly
51 (2005), 4, 359-386
| Holger Bonin, Rob Euwals
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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the "5th International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users", ed. by Holst, Elke; Hunt, Jennifer and Schupp, Jürgen)
123 (2003), 1, 199-208
| Holger Bonin, Wolfram Kempe, Hilmar Schneider
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This paper quantifies the life-cycle incidence of key family policy measures in Germany. The analysis is based on a novel dynamic microsimulation model that combines simulated family life-cycles for a base population from the 2009 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with a comprehensive tax-benefit model. The results indicate that households in Germany benefit considerably from family- and ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2015,
(SOEPpapers 770)
| Holger Bonin, Karsten Reuss, Holger Stichnoth