Arbeitspapier
Born entrepreneur? Adolescents' personality characteristics and self-employment in adulthood
Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by using the so-called Type A behavior traits (Aggression, Leadership, Responsibility, and Eagerness-Energy), measured in childhood and adolescence, and examining their relationship to self-employment propensity in adulthood. Using data from the Young Finns Study linked to the Finnish Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data and the Longitudinal Population Census of Statistics, our results show that the early-life Leadership-dimension is significantly associated with a higher likelihood 1) of becoming self-employed later in life and 2) of being more successful as an entrepreneur, as approximated by sales. Our results also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship.
- ISBN
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978-3-943153-27-9
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: BERG Working Paper Series ; No. 108
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Entrepreneurship
- Thema
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Type A behavior
personality
self-employment
entrepreneurship
intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Viinikainen, Jutta
Heineck, Guido
Böckerman, Petri
Hintsanen, Mirka
Raitakari, Olli
Pehkonen, Jaakko
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Bamberg University, Bamberg Economic Research Group (BERG)
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Bamberg
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2016
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Viinikainen, Jutta
- Heineck, Guido
- Böckerman, Petri
- Hintsanen, Mirka
- Raitakari, Olli
- Pehkonen, Jaakko
- Bamberg University, Bamberg Economic Research Group (BERG)
Entstanden
- 2016