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  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?

    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
  • Externe Monographien

    A Critique and Reframing of Personality in Labour Market Theory: Locus of Control and Labour Market Outcomes

    Bonn: IZA, 2011, 50 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 6090)
    | Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 5 / 2011

    Child Care Choices in Western Germany Also Correlated with Mother's Personality

    The expansion of formal child care, particularly for children under the age of three, has resulted in more and more children from this age group attending day care facilities. This formal child care setting is frequently combined with care provided by grandparents or other individuals. The combination and number of child care settings made use of is influenced by a variety of socio-economic factors ...

    2011| Liv Bjerre, Frauke H. Peter, C. Katharina Spieß
  • SOEPpapers 250 / 2009

    Personality and Career: She's Got What It Takes

    The female share in management positions is quite low in Germany. The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women there are in such positions. Men have numerous role models to follow whereas women lack this opportunity: In the executive boards of the top 200 private companies in Germany, only 2.5 percent of members are female. Many studies have focused on the influence of human capital and other ...

    2009| Simon Fietze, Elke Holst, Verena Tobsch
  • Diskussionspapiere 955 / 2009

    Personality and Career: She's Got What It Takes

    The female share in management positions is quite low in Germany. The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women there are in such positions. Men have numerous role models to follow whereas women lack this opportunity: In the executive boards of the top 200 private companies in Germany, only 2.5 percent of members are female. Many studies have focused on the influence of human capital and other ...

    2009| Simon Fietze, Elke Holst, Verena Tobsch
  • SOEPpapers 370 / 2011

    Measuring Individual Risk Attitudes in the Lab: Task or Ask? An Empirical Comparison

    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 ...

    2011| Jan-Erik Lönnqvist, Markku Verkasalo, Gari Walkowitz, Philipp C. Wichardt
  • Diskussionspapiere 1113 / 2011

    Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed

    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 ...

    2011| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
  • Externe Monographien

    Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?

    Bonn: IZA, 2010, 27 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 5380)
    | Amelie F. Constant, Annabelle Krause, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • SOEPpapers 343 / 2010

    Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions

    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 also perform the analysis for different types of professions, namely, those classified as being in the "creative ...

    2010| Michael Fritsch, Alina Rusakova
  • SOEPpapers 403 / 2011

    A Critique and Reframing of Personality in Labour Market Theory: Locus of Control and Labour Market Outcomes

    This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in the processes by which highly positive and negative ...

    2011| Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst
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