Self-employment after socialism: intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital
"Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development – parental role models – for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the social...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin
2012
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| Online Access: | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19132658124919508309-Self-employment-after-socialis.htm |
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| author | Fritsch, Michael Rusakova, Alina |
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| description | "Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development – parental role models – for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurial attitudes among East Germans with a tertiary degree that have experienced a particularly strong ideological indoctrination. However, we find a significant and positive relationship between the presence of a parental role model and the decision to become self-employed for less-educated people. For West Germans the positive relationship holds irrespective of the level of education." |
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| geographic | Germany |
| id | 19132658124919508309_56aa0b35e02d435693f898a1e0c8385a |
| institution | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
| is_hierarchy_id | 19132658124919508309_56aa0b35e02d435693f898a1e0c8385a |
| is_hierarchy_title | Self-employment after socialism: intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital |
| language | English |
| physical | 17 p. Digital |
| publishDate | 2012 |
| publisher | Berlin DIW |
| spellingShingle | Fritsch, Michael Rusakova, Alina entrepreneurship human capital self employment socialism Self-employment after socialism: intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital |
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| title | Self-employment after socialism: intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital |
| topic | entrepreneurship human capital self employment socialism |
| url | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19132658124919508309-Self-employment-after-socialis.htm |