Arbeitspapier

Post-Socialist Culture and Entrepreneurship

In this paper it is argued that locus of control beliefs and preferences concerning state action negatively affect the formation of new firms in former socialist countries. For this purpose Kirzner's theory of costless entrepreneurship is reviewed and criticized. German reunification, in which the formerly Socialist East joined the Federal Republic of Germany, represents an intriguing natural experiment in which the formal institutional structure of one nation was almost fully transplanted into another. Traditional as well as psychological factors are examined. The results suggest that about one third of the east-west gap in new self-employment can be explained by inert informal institutions.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 373

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: General
Thema
Psychology of Entrepreneurship
Self-Employment
Transitional Economies
East Germany
Entrepreneurship-Ansatz
Unternehmer
Verhaltensökonomik
Unternehmensgründung
Systemtransformation
Ostdeutschland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Runst, Petrik
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2011

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Runst, Petrik
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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