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| Title: | | Personality characteristics and the decision to become and stay self-employed  |
| Authors: | | Caliendo, Marco Fossen, Frank M. Kritikos, Alexander S. |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | School of Business & Economics Discussion Paper: Economics 2011/9 |
| Abstract: | | 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 of self-employed persons in Germany. The empirical analysis reveals that among the specific characteristics in particular 'risk attitudes' and 'locus of control' have strong effects on entry and survival. With respect to the Big Five approach, in particular the traits 'openness to experience' and 'extraversion' and to a lower extent 'agreeableness' and 'neuroticism' help to explain entrepreneurial development. The explanatory power of the Big Five is comparable to one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than parental selfemployment. |
| Subjects: | | Entrepreneurship Personality Big Five Risk Aversion Locus of Control |
| JEL: | | D81 J23 M13 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW Diskussionsbeiträge, FB Wirtschaftswissenschaft, FU Berlin
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