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
978-3-943153-27-9
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: BERG Working Paper Series ; No. 108

Classification
Wirtschaft
Entrepreneurship
Subject
Type A behavior
personality
self-employment
entrepreneurship
intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Viinikainen, Jutta
Heineck, Guido
Böckerman, Petri
Hintsanen, Mirka
Raitakari, Olli
Pehkonen, Jaakko
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Bamberg University, Bamberg Economic Research Group (BERG)
(where)
Bamberg
(when)
2016

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Viinikainen, Jutta
  • Heineck, Guido
  • Böckerman, Petri
  • Hintsanen, Mirka
  • Raitakari, Olli
  • Pehkonen, Jaakko
  • Bamberg University, Bamberg Economic Research Group (BERG)

Time of origin

  • 2016

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