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.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9805
Entrepreneurship
personality
self-employment
entrepreneurship
intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship
Heineck, Guido
Böckerman, Petri
Hintsanen, Mirka
Raitakari, Olli
Pehkonen, Jaakko
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- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:22 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Viinikainen, Jutta
- Heineck, Guido
- Böckerman, Petri
- Hintsanen, Mirka
- Raitakari, Olli
- Pehkonen, Jaakko
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2016