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Diskussionspapiere 684 / 2007
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 ...
2007| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Financial literacy predicts informed financial decisions, but what explains financial literacy? We use the concept of financial socialization and aim to represent three major agents of financial socialization: family, school and work. Thus we compile twelve relevant childhood characteristics in a new survey study and examine their relation to financial literacy, while controlling for established socio-demographic ...
In:
Journal of Economic Psychology
51 (2015), S. 114-133
| Antonia Grohmann, Roy Kouwenberg, Lukas Menkhoff
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Sonstige Publikationen des DIW / Aufsätze 2018
Towards the very end of this legislative period, a cross-caucus parliamentary majority gave same-sex marriage the green light – progress for the legal equality of homosexuals in Germany. This report focuses on the life situations of homosexual and bisexual people in Germany. The careers they pursue, for example, differ from those of heterosexuals. Hourly wages are an area of significant disparity: ...
2018| Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne, Christian Kipp, David Richter
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DIW Economic Bulletin 33/34/35 / 2017
Towards the very end of this legislative period, a cross-caucus parliamentary majority gave same-sex marriage the green light – progress for the legal equality of homosexuals in Germany. This report focuses on the life situations of homosexual and bisexual people in Germany. The careers they pursue, for example, differ from those of heterosexuals. Hourly wages are an area of significant disparity: ...
2017| Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne, Christian Kipp, David Richter
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Event
Leibniz ScienceCampusBerlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) Forum
The Forum will bring together all BCCP fellows in law and economics who are engaged in the activities of the science campus. We will have the opportunity to learn about each other’s research during short presentations by the different partner institutions followed by open discussion. The objective of the meeting is to...
08.04.2019
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Sonstige Publikationen des DIW / Aufsätze 2012
2012| Liv Bjerre, Frauke H. Peter, C. Katharina Spieß
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity and to compare natives and second generation migrants. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is based on the IZA Evaluation Dataset, a recently collected survey of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany. The data include a large number of migrant-specific ...
In:
International Journal of Manpower
32 (2011), 7, S. 825-851
| Amelie Constant, Annabelle Krause, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Externe Monographien
Bonn:
IZA,
2011,
50 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 6090)
| Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst
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SOEPpapers 550 / 2013
In recent years the topic entrepreneurship has become a major focus in the social sciences, with renewed interest in the links between personality and entrepreneurship. Taking a socioecological perspective to psychology, which emphasizes the role of social habitats and their interactions with mind and behavior, we investigated regional variation in and correlates of an entrepreneurship-prone Big Five ...
2013| Martin Obschonka, Eva Schmitt-Rodermund, Rainer K. Silbereisen, Samuel D. Gosling, Jeff Potter
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SOEPpapers 531 / 2013
Personality traits drive behaviors and attitudes, and determine socio-economic life outcomes for individuals. This paper investigates the relationship of six personality traits, the Big Five and Locus of Control, to individual participation in employment-related further education and training (FET) in a longitudinal perspective. Initial research suggests that training is a crucial determinant of life ...
2013| Judith Offerhaus